State of the aert - IPR Protection and Licensing

I really don't know what forum to post this in..... but given my own thoughts on where aspects of this issue might best be tackled, I thought I'd start here.
I've been working with Java for about 8 years now. Clearly I'm rather positive about Java as the software technology of choice. However one area that I am not satisfied with is concerned with the following issues:
1. I want to ensure my product can only ever be installed and run within the bounds of my license agreement.
2. And i want to ensure my code cannot easliy be decompiled and stolen.
These 2 issues are pretty critical whenever Java is used to create a commercial software product. I suspect native code applications are stronger in these areas.
It's been a while since I looked into this.... as far as issue (2) is concerned, the last time I looked (years ago), obfuscation was as near to a solution as you could get and this was never a particularly convincing approach in my opinion. I have never seen anything remotely standardised regarding (1) where, for example, I might want to control use of a product through a cryptographic license key of some sort, perhaps binding use of the product to a date range, IP address, MAC address, maximum capacity or other runtime attribute.
For either or both of the above, can anyone tell me what the state of the art is today please? And is there any work (perhaps in the JCP) going on to progress these issues further?
Thanks in anticipation
Martin

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