Copyright protection of J2EE Web applications through watermarking

Three techniques - code obfuscation, software watermarking, and code tamper-proofing - have been proposed to protect the copyright of software. But they face challenges when they are applied to Web applications, in which servers and clients are connected through Internet protocols, such as HTTP and TCP/IP. These protocols are intrusion prone. The proposed research aims at protecting the originality and copyright of Web applications through watermarking. The presented technique includes watermark embedding, key obfuscation, and watermark retrieval through Internet protocols and Java based Web application techniques in a stealthy way. Experimental tests demonstrate the feasibility of the algorithm