PE/COFF 4J is a java engineering library for portable executables, the format used by Windows. It has the following features:

• Parser for Windows executables and DLLs.
• Assembler for creating and modifying executables and DLLs.
• Resource directory parser - understands version info, icons.

PE/COFF 4J is licensed under the Common Public License (CPL).

The latest download is available from the Project Page.

The following snippet shows how to parse an executable.

package org.boris.pecoff4j;

import org.boris.pecoff4j.io.PEParser;

/**
 * An example demonstrating parsing an executable.
 */
public class ParseExecutableTest {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        PE pe = PEParser.parse("c:/windows/system32/notepad.exe");
        System.out.println(pe);
    }
}

V0.0.1

• Initial version.