Better understanding manual reverse engineering can make it and any associated systems reengineering more effective. We reverse engineered a version of a system (referred to as "BOS/X") in support of a broader reengineering effort. System reengineering goals and other circumstances dictated a focused, limited duration, manual reverse engineering exercise. This presented an opportunity to study ...

Applications of reverse engineering to speeding up a product realization process have gained momentum in recent years. The Internet has found increasingly more applications in manufacturing. Internet-based reverse engineering takes advantage of the recent developments in the above two areas. This paper presents the methodology of Internet-based reverse engineering and a case study will illustra...

Java applets have been used increasingly on web sites to perform client-side processing and provide dynamic content. While many web site analysis tools are available , their focus has been on static HTML content and most ignore applet code completely. This paper presents a system that analyzes and tracks changes in Java ap-plets. The tool extracts information from applet code about classes, met...