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OWASP Enterprise Security API (ESAPI) Project

The ESAPI is a collection of all the security methods that a developer needs to build a secure web application. You can just use the interfaces and build your own implementation using your company's infrastructure. Or, you can use the reference implementation as a starting point.

Unfortunately, the available platforms, frameworks, and toolkits (Java EE, Struts, Spring, etc...) simply do not provide enough protection. This leaves developers with responsibility for designing and building security mechanisms. This reinventing the wheel for every application leads to wasted time and massive security holes.

The ESAPI architecture is very simple, just a collection of classes that encapsulate the key security operations most applications need.

• Javadoc online: http://owasp-esapi-java.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javadoc/index.html

• Code repository (subversion): http://code.google.com/p/owasp-esapi-java/

• Report issues: http://code.google.com/p/owasp-esapi-java/issues/list

Architecture

The ESAPI covers most of the key security challenges facing application developers. ESAPI provides the capability for developers to create applications that are protected against almost all of the risks described in the OWASP Top Ten. Compare this coverage with automated scanning and static analysis tools, and then consider how your time is best spent.

There are two key parts to the ESAPI:

• A set of interfaces
• A reference implementation

By using the ESAPI, applications across an organization will be easier to develop, more consistent, and easier to update in a single place. The use of the ESAPI will make it much easier for static analysis tools to verify an application, as the ESAPI calls can be built into the ruleset.

Join the OWASP ESAPI mailing list and help make ESAPI better!

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This release is the first public release and will undoubtably undergo significant revision over the coming months. We are seeking organizations willing to pilot this ESAPI and work with us to make this library better. Please contact [email protected] for more information.

• Full software baseline

• Just the jar file

• Simple test app and user admin interface

Documentation

Lots more information in the PowerPoint presentation contained in the documentation folder in the full release zip file.

There is also quite a bit of information in the javadoc documentation for the project, and the installation and build guide.[[]]