PreEmptive Solutions has announced the availability of DashO Version 5, its tool that integrates application security with business performance monitoring for Java-based applications. 

PreEmptive announced the release of DashO 5 at the RSA Conference 2009 in San Francisco. The new version includes improved security and support for emerging enterprise and mobile frameworks such as Android, as well as the ability to monitor application adoption and end-user behavior, company officials said.

DashO is a Java obfuscator. Obfuscator tools are used to help make it more difficult to reverse-engineer programs. Indeed, programs written for Java or .NET are easy to reverse-engineer with decompiler tools. However, an obfuscator removes and alters context from compiled code programs, which makes it harder for anyone to reverse-engineer programs.

DashO 5 provides protection, measurement and management for mobile development frameworks, including Google Android. It also features PreEmptive's Runtime Intelligence Service integration, which provides the ability to inject session and feature level monitoring post-build with no programming required and stream run-time data to the Runtime Intelligence Service portal. And the product also provides automated support for Spring, Hibernate, JSP Tag Libraries and WAR files. Automated support for these frameworks and libraries has become a broad industry requirement, the company said.

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