Give it another look, it's actually quite nice. The issue you find with it doesn't come up that often in practice. Most of the time (99.9+%) you can find the so

Give it another look, it's actually quite nice. The issue you find with it doesn't come up that often in practice. Most of the time (99.9+%) you can find the source code to a specific JAR easily. Want to fork or modify? No problem, just edit he code, compile a new JAR, drop it somewhere. Done. It's like if the intermediate code to your favorite language's JIT were shippable (I'm actually surprised more languages don't do this).