Created by James Hurrell, last modified by N Padmavathi on Jun 12, 2020
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Target audience:

Users of the extension providing JEE analysis support.

Summary: This document provides information about the extension providing JEE analysis support.

Description

This extension provides support for JEE.

What's new?

Please see the following pages for information about new features/changes, fixed bugs, changes that will impact results etc.:

Technology support

Please also see JEE - Technical notes and limitations for additional information.
Language / FrameworkSupportedSupported Versions

Java JDK

(tick)
  • 1.1 - 1.8
Presentation layer frameworks


Java Server Faces (JSF)(tick)
  • 1.2
  • 2.0, 2.1

This includes the support of the following third-party JSF libraries:

  • Richfaces
  • IceFaces
  • MyFaces (Apache)
  • PrimeFaces
JSP(tick)
  • 1.1, 1.2
  • 2.0

Note:

Apache Struts

(tick)
  • 1.0, 1.1 (including Tiles 1.0 and STXX 1.0 - 1.2)
  • 2.0 - 2.5
Struts Validator(tick)
  • 1.2, 1.3
STXX(tick)
  • 1.0, 1.1, 1.2
Persistence layer frameworksHibernate(tick)
  • 2.x
  • 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6
  • 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3-5.x
JPA(tick)
  • 1.0
  • 2.0, 2.1
EJB(tick)
  • 2.0, 2.1
  • 3.x (only @Stateless, @Stateful, @Local and @Remote annotations are supported)
Other frameworks



Spring IoC(tick)
  • 1.2.x
  • 2.x
  • 3.x
  • 4.x

WSDL

(tick)
  • 1.1

CDI

(tick)
  • 1.0, 1.1, 1.2
Spring Batch(tick)-

Project Lombok

Lombok

(tick)

  • 1.18.12

Function Point, Quality and Sizing support

This extension provides the following support:

  • Function Points (transactions): a green tick indicates that OMG Function Point counting and Transaction Risk Index are supported
  • Quality and Sizing: a green tick indicates that CAST can measure size and that a minimum set of Quality Rules exist
Function Points
(transactions)		Quality and Sizing
(tick)(tick)

CAST AIP compatibility

This extension is compatible with:

CAST AIP releaseSupported
8.3.x(tick)
8.2.x(error)
8.1.x(error)
8.0.x(error)
7.3.x(error)

Supported DBMS servers

This extension is compatible with the following DBMS servers:

CAST AIP releaseCSSOracleMicrosoft
All supported releases(tick)(tick)(tick)

Prerequisites

(tick)An installation of any compatible release of CAST AIP (see table above)

Required third-party software

The following section lists any third-party software that may be required to successfully deliver source code and run an analysis with the JEE Analyzer extension:

Install on workstation running DMTInstall on workstation running CMS

Nothing required

The CAST Delivery Manager Tool (DMT) only requires the location of the JEE application for extraction and packaging.

Nothing required

Dependencies with other extensions

Some CAST AIP extensions require the presence of other CAST AIP extensions in order to function correctly. The JEE Analyzer extension requires that the following other CAST AIP extensions are also installed:

  • Web services linker service (internal technical extension)
Note that when using the CAST Extension Downloader to download the extension and the Manage Extensions interface in CAST Server Manager to install the extension, any dependent extensions are automatically downloaded and installed for you. You do not need to do anything.

Download and installation instructions

Please see:

Application qualification information

Please see: JEE - Application qualification specifics

Prepare and deliver the source code

Please see: JEE - Prepare and deliver the source code

Analysis configuration and execution

Please see: JEE - Analysis configuration and execution and all child pages:

What analysis results can you expect?

Please see: JEE - Analysis results

Current known limitations

See also JEE Analyzer - Technology support notes.

Quality Rules

Avoid static field of type collection (7562)

When calculating a snapshot for applicationusing JSE 5.0, the Quality Rule "Avoid static field of type collection (7562)" does not list as "Very High Risk Objects" classes that are or inherit from a Generic collection. The Quality Rule lists only the non generic form of collections. For example static attributes of type java.util.Collection<E> will not be reported as a violation.

Persistence: Avoid table and column names that are too long (portability) (7706)

Situation:

  • JEE application using the Java Persistence API (JPA), e.g. in the form of Hibernate.
  • A table or column name is not specified in the annotations of the JPA entity.

Symptoms: The JPA entity is not listed as a "Very High Risk" object in the results.

No link bookmarks generated

When Java Methods are defined inside a JSP file, no link bookmarks are generated (bookmarks can be seen in CAST Enlighten or in the Dynamic Link Manager). Example of a Java Method defined in a JSP file:

<%@ page language="Java" %> 
<%! 
public void myMethod(String message)
{ System.out.println(message); } 
%>