1 <html> 2 <body> 3 The Javassist Core API. 4 5 <p>Javassist (<i>Java</i> programming <i>assist</i>ant) makes bytecode 6 engineering simple. It is a class library for editing 7 bytecode in Java; it enables Java programs to define a new class at 8 runtime and to modify a given class file when the JVM loads it. 9 10 <p>The most significant class of this package is <code>CtClass</code>. 11 See the description of this class first. 12 13 <p>To know the version number of this package, type the following command: 14 15 <ul><pre> 16 java -jar javassist.jar 17 </pre></ul> 18 19 <p>It prints the version number on the console. 20 21 </body> 22 </html> 23