Encrypting War files

Question

I would like to encrypt or obfuscate my WAR file so that reverse engineering will take a little more effort. Is there such a tool or maven plugin that will encrypt a WAR file a

Answer 1

Cracking Java byte-code encryption - Why Java obfuscation schemes based on byte-code encryption won't work - Article from JavaWorld.

If your code is important enough to go to all this trouble it probably makes sense to host it on a private server... :\