Java License Software Protection

Hi guys.....
I create a software, so I would like to create a license key control for it!!!! Are there any FREE Java Tool to do this?!!? Or anynoe could give me some idea about how to implement it!?!?
Thanks all....
Giscard

I don't know of any free tools (but i haven't looked for any so there might be some). But it ain't difficult to write your own.
1. Create a string, byte array, what ever you want to use with the information you need.
2. encrypt this data with a punlic-key algorithem like RSA
3. ship the private key with your program (you can even hardcode it in your code if you want) and let never ever anyone see the public key
This way your program can decode the information but noone besides you can create a valid license file. Of course someone could "just" remove any license checks from your program. But there is no way how you could avoid this. You could try to make it more difficult but usually i wouldn't care about it. Most customers have better things to do than cracking your code. And for these 99.9% such a license file works fine enough

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