CWE-575 — EJB Bad Practices: Use of AWT Swing
CWE-575: EJB Bad Practices: Use of AWT Swing
MITRE CWE weakness
| Kind | Weakness |
| Abstraction | Variant |
| Status | Draft |
| Likelihood of exploit | — |
Description
The product violates the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) specification by using AWT/Swing.
The Enterprise JavaBeans specification requires that every bean provider follow a set of programming guidelines designed to ensure that the bean will be portable and behave consistently in any EJB container. In this case, the product violates the following EJB guideline: "An enterprise bean must not use the AWT functionality to attempt to output information to a display, or to input information from a keyboard." The specification justifies this requirement in the following way: "Most servers do not allow direct interaction between an application program and a keyboard/display attached to the server system."
Common consequences
- Other: Quality Degradation
Mitigations
Architecture and Design — Do not use AWT/Swing when writing EJBs.
References
- CWE page: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/575.html
- CWE list: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/index.html