Covert Java™: Techniques for Decompiling, Patching, and Reverse Engineering

Chapter 12. Reverse Engineering Applications

	“If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, then the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.”
	--Murphy's Technology Laws

IN THIS CHAPTER

• User Interface Elements and Resources 121

• Hacking Text 122

• Hacking Images 123

• Hacking Configuration Files 125

• Quick Quiz 125

• In Brief 126

User Interface Elements and Resources

In Chapter 5, “Replacing and Patching Application Classes,” we talked about patching classes to alter the application logic. In this chapter we discuss changing the user interface elements such as messages, warnings, prompts, images, icons, menus, and colors. The same principles described in Chapter 5 apply here as well. The first task is to locate a resource ...