The CERT Oracle Secure Coding Standard for Java

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The CERT Oracle Secure Coding Standard for Java includes rules and recommended practices for secure programming in the Java Platform Standard Edition 6 environment. This is a work-in-progress and we actively seek your feedback and involvement in making this effort a success. We thank and acknowledge all the contributors.

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  1. Security
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  2. Defensive Programming
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  3. Reliability
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  4. Program Understandability
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  5. Programmer Misconceptions
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  Rule 00. Input Validation and Data Sanitization (IDS)
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  Rule 01. Declarations and Initialization (DCL)
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  Rule 02. Expressions (EXP)
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  Rule 03. Numeric Types and Operations (NUM)
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  Rule 04. Characters and Strings (STR)
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  Rule 05. Object Orientation (OBJ)
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  Rule 06. Methods (MET)
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  Rule 07. Exceptional Behavior (ERR)
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  Rule 08. Visibility and Atomicity (VNA)
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  Rule 09. Locking (LCK)
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  Rule 10. Thread APIs (THI)
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  Rule 11. Thread Pools (TPS)
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  Rule 12. Thread-Safety Miscellaneous (TSM)
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  Rule 13. Input Output (FIO)
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  Rule 14. Serialization (SER)
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  Rule 15. Platform Security (SEC)
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  Rule 16. Runtime Environment (ENV)
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  Rule 17. Java Native Interface (JNI)
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  Rule 49. Miscellaneous (MSC)

99. The Void (VOID)

AA. Bibliography

BB. Definitions

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