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Re: Corsaire White Paper: Assessing Java Clients with the BeanShell
From: "Matthew Franz" <mdfranz () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:05:14 -0500
Very cool article, but since BeanShell is basically Java (and Java is a horrible scripting language for a whole lot of obvious reasons) IMHO this sort of mayhem is better conducted in something like JRuby or Jython or even Groovy ( http://groovy.codehaus.org/) if one doesn't already know with Ruby or Python. All of Java Scripting languages should provide the same sort of functionality in terms of inspecting objects, embedding interpreters, etc. - mdf On 8/18/06, Stephen de Vries <stephen () corsaire com> wrote:
http://www.corsaire.com/white-papers/060816-assessing-java-clients- with-the-beanshell.pdf Assessing the security of Java applications, and particularly client- server applications, can be a tedious process of modifying the code, compiling, deploying, testing and repeat. This becomes even more difficult when the source code to the application is not available. What security testers require is an easy means of interacting with the internals of a Java application during execution without recompiling the code. The BeanShell (http://www.beanshell.org) provides an interpreted, scripting environment that can plug in to any Java application or applet and allows users to inspect and manipulate objects dynamically. This paper demonstrates a technique for using the BeanShell to assess the security of a typical Java client-server application. -- Stephen de Vries Corsaire Ltd E-mail: stephen () corsaire com Tel: +44 1483 226014 Fax: +44 1483 226068 Web: http://www.corsaire.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: Watchfire Watchfire was recently named the worldwide market leader in Web application security assessment tools by both Gartner and IDC. Download a free trial of AppScan today and see why more customers choose AppScan then any other solution. Try it today! https://www.watchfire.com/securearea/appscancamp.aspx?id=701500000008VnB --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Matthew Franz http://www.threatmind.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: WatchfireWatchfire was recently named the worldwide market leader in Web application security assessment tools by both Gartner and IDC. Download a free trial of AppScan today and see why more customers choose AppScan then any other solution. Try it today! https://www.watchfire.com/securearea/appscancamp.aspx?id=701500000008VnB
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