>>However, if you want to a class available to a team of developers but DON'T >want them to change it this works.
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>I don't know.... Seems to me if you have to go to measures like that to secure code, its time to find new developers.
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>The point I brought about debugging was really rhetorical < s >. There are a host of other issues - compiling classes would fail. After all - no source code...right?? The process of removing code, replacing code to rebuild, removing code again, and so forth. Seems pretty counter-productive.

Sure would be. I've never done it, although this IS a question we see frequently, so others must want to hide their code despite the problems.