CWE-576β€”EJB Bad Practices: Use of Java I/O

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released 2006-12-15 Β· last modified 2025-12-11

Metadata

CWE ID:
CWE-576
Abstraction:
Variant
Structure:
Simple
Status:
Draft
Release Date:
2006-12-15
Latest Modification Date:
2025-12-11

Weakness Name

EJB Bad Practices: Use of Java I/O

Description

The product violates the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) specification by using the java.io package.

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 java.io package to attempt to access files and directories in the file system." The specification justifies this requirement in the following way: "The file system APIs are not well-suited for business components to access data. Business components should use a resource manager API, such as JDBC, to store data."

Common Consequences

Scope:
Other
Impact:
Quality Degradation

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