XML based objdump

The linux tool: objdump is a useful tool to dump binary file in specical format such as ELF, COFF, but the usage is not as good as expect. Here is a idea of a new implementation of the objdump tool

• This tool provide a plugable framework for multi binary format, eg, the Java Class file, the OLE2 document, the Flash format etc.


• The binary format is transferred to an XML format which can understand by the framework. It is the response that the binary plugin transfer from the binary to XML


• The framework provide both a GUI and a CLI(Command Line Interface) utility, the GUI version can navigate the binary interactive, the CLI access XML filter to output special information.


• the CLI utility may use a script language as the interview language, such as javascript.

The tool is useful only for low-level research.