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changes.mady.by.user Dhruv Mohindra

Saved on Sep 07, 2009

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Risk Assessment Summary

Rule	Severity	Likelihood	Detectable	Repairable

Recommendations

MET00-J. Understand the difference between overriding and hiding

MET01-J. Follow good design principles while defining methods

MET02-J. Avoid ambiguous uses of overloading

MET03-J. For methods that return an array or collection prefer returning an empty array or collection over a null value

MET04-J. Always provide feedback about the resulting value of a method

MET05-J. Validate method parameters

MET06-J. Methods that perform a security check must be declared private or final

Rules

MET30-J. Follow the general contract while overriding the equals method

MET31-J. Ensure that hashCode() is overridden when equals() is overridden

MET32-J. Ensure that constructors do not call overridable methods

MET33-J. Do not subject overloaded methods to polymorphic invocations

MET34-J. Follow the general contract when implementing the compareTo method

MET35-J. Ensure that the clone method calls super.clone

MET36-J. Do not use deprecated methods

Risk Assessment Summary

Recommendations

Recommendation	Severity	Likelihood	Remediation Cost	Priority	Level
MET00-J	High	Likely low	unlikely No	medium No	P2 P9	L3 L2
MET01-J	Medium	low Probable	unlikely No	high Yes	P1 P8	L3 L2
MET02-J	Low	Unlikely low	unlikely Yes	high No	P1 P2	L3
MET03-J	Medium	Probable low	unlikely No	high No	P1 P4	L3
MET04-J	Medium	Probable medium	probable Yes	medium No	P8	L2
MET05-J	Medium	Probable medium	probable Yes	medium No	P8	L2

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Rules Severity Likelihood Remediation Cost Priority Level

MET06-J	Medium	Probable	Yes	No	P8	L2 MET30
MET07-J	Low	Unlikely low	unlikely Yes	medium No	P2	L3 MET31
MET08-J	Low	Unlikely low	unlikely No	high No	P1	L3 MET32
MET09-J	Low	Unlikely medium	probable Yes	medium No	P8 P2	L2 L3 MET33
MET10-J	Medium	low Unlikely	unlikely No	high No	P1 P2	L3 MET34
MET11-J	Low	Probable medium	unlikely Yes	medium No	P4	L3
MET12-J	Medium	Probable	Yes	No	P8	L2
MET13-J	Medium	Likely	No	No	P6	L2

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Image Added Image Added Image Added CON39-J. Ensure atomicity of 64-bit operations The CERT Sun Microsystems Secure Coding Standard for Java MET00-J. Understand the difference between overriding and hiding