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Java Open Review Project

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the many-eyeballs dept.

bvc writes "We Launched the Java Open Review Project today. We're reviewing open source Java code all the way from Tomcat down to PetStore looking for bugs and security vulnerabilities. We're using two static analysis tools to do the heavy lifting: the open source tool FindBugs, and the commercial tool Fortify SCA. We can use plenty of human eyes to help sort through the results. We're also soliciting ideas for which projects we should be reviewing next. Please help!"

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  1. Re:Static analysis unnecessary! by EsbenMoseHansen · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Really, crash an app because somebody is using an array rather than an ArrayList? So you're telling me that the programmer not knowing the difference between something with a static (ungrowable) size and a dynamic (growable) size is a fault of the language?

    That is the argument you hear all the time. E.g, most buffer overflows in C is due to people using fixed arrays for variable length strings... which makes little sense.

    Today, it seems that "archiving goals by lowering expectations" is the norm among application developers... dumping down languages to avoid features that might burn developers.

    Happily, there are still quite a slew of languages which are not like that. Too bad that I still have to work in Java sometimes.

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