NET Reverse Engineering with MARPLE

Currently, research on reverse engineering and automated design pattern detection focuses mostly on some of the programming languages such as Java and C/C++, with marginal interest in the .NET area. In this paper, we present a tool for analyzing .NET executables for architecture reconstruction in general and design pattern detection in particular. The tool extracts the meaningful information from .NET systems and produces an output compatible with the design pattern detection tool we are developing for Java software, tool called MARPLE (Metrics and Architecture Reconstruction PLug-in for Eclipse).