Source: bcel Section: java Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Java Maintainers Uploaders: Torsten Werner , Emmanuel Bourg Build-Depends-Indep: default-jdk Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), libassertj-core-java, libcommons-exec-java, libcommons-lang3-java, libecj-java, libjna-platform-java, libmaven-bundle-plugin-java, libmaven-javadoc-plugin-java, libmockito-java, junit5, maven-debian-helper (>= 2.1~) Standards-Version: 4.7.0 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/bcel.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/bcel Homepage: http://commons.apache.org/bcel/ Package: libbcel-java Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${maven:Depends} Suggests: ${maven:OptionalDepends} Description: Analyze, create, and manipulate (binary) Java class files The Byte Code Engineering Library is intended to give users a convenient possibility to analyze, create, and manipulate (binary) Java class files (those ending with .class). Classes are represented by objects which contain all the symbolic information of the given class: methods, fields and byte code instructions, in particular. . Such objects can be read from an existing file, be transformed by a program (e.g. a class loader at run-time) and dumped to a file again. An even more interesting application is the creation of classes from scratch at run-time. The Byte Code Engineering Library (BCEL) may be also useful if you want to learn about the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and the format of Java .class files.