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This crazy guy, Cameron Purdy decided to convert Java bytecodes in to human readable XML. The resulting conversion for 'rt.jar', the whole runtime java archive, ended up being 620 gig's of data! wow. But he can now, apparently, edit the human readable byte codes in notepad.