Can someone explain me why there is so few decent java decompilers out there ? Yes, JAD does a decent job in many cases, but sometimes simple control flow confuses it and the reconstruction is less than accurate. JODE is sometimes better in that regard, but fails on a good number of files, and also does not seem to assign new variable names based on the types of the variables.

With all that Java code on my cellphone, it's slightly annoying that it's so difficult to get a decent decompile. I mean, once I have that I can work in eclipse and refactor the class/variable names until I am happy.

Then again, it seems Java decompilers were all the rage in 1997-2002, and nowadays few people seem to be developing them...