Protecting intellectual property

One of the problems in the past for 3rd parties wishing to develop complementary solutions for SAP has been that the (ABAP) source code is easily viewed and maniputable. I am unsure whether the same possibility exists with the J2EE design-time repository.

With SAP's push to offer NetWeaver as a technology platform aside from the business applications themselves, does anyone know if SAP are making moves to protect intellectual property?

Cheers,

Scott