JnicHelper

An annotation based config generator for the jnic java obfuscator

JNIC: https://jnic.dev/

Usage

In the project that you plan on protecting with jnic implement the following interface

import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
public @interface jnic {}

Then proceed to annotate every method that you want to protect in your project with the @jnic annotation, like so:

    @jnic
    public void logger(String msg) {
        System.out.println(msg);
    }

Running JnicHelper

When you want to protect your jar, download the latest release of JnicHelper from the releases tab and run it with the command
java -jar JnicHelper.jar myJar.jar"

you also can specify output folder path java -jar JnicHelper.jar myJar.jar OutputFolderPath"

arguments:
-mangle or -m - to set the mangle option in the generated config to true
-stringobf or -s - to set the stringobf option in the generated config to true
-desc or -d - to make jnic also generate the methods description

recommended settings:
java -jar JnicHelper.jar MyJar.jar -s
After running the command JnicHelper will generate a config.xml file that will protect all the methods that are annotated with the @jnic annotation

Note: if you use another java obfuscator before obfuscating with jnic make sure to exclude the @jnic interface from being name obfuscated

Note: We did it! JNIC has implemented this annotations feature in version 3.5.0 so if you are on 3.5.0 or above there is no need to use jnichelper however we still keep this project up for anyone who is still on older versions

Annotation removal

If you want to remove the jnic annotation from the methods for one reason or another checkout bruhisalex's tool built directly for that: https://github.com/bruhitsalex/JarAnnotationRemover