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Recently, we’ve worked with a handful of customers who are using the Spring Boot framework. Spring Boot provides a simple way to create Spring-based applications. This blog explains how to protect jars created with the framework.

Spring Boot jars use an embedded class file structure which DashO does not directly recognize. DashO processes the regular class and package hierarchy. However, it does not embed the class files from the BOOT-INF/classes directory when writing the obfuscated jar.