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Source: Security Focus - Posted by Eric Lubow
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Code auditing firm Fortify Software announced on Monday that the company is teaming up with quality-testing project FindBugs to offer a free scanning service to any Java programmer aimed at automatically detecting quality defects and security bugs. The project, dubbed Java Open Review, will allow any project written in Java to be submitted by a contributor to be scanned using both Fortify's auditing tool and the FindBugs engine. The two organizations have already scanned ten open-source projects written in Java, including the Azureus Bittorrent application, the Zimbra Web e-mail server, and the Apache Tomcat Java server.
The project has gotten support from both Sun Microsystems, the creator of Java, and Google, a heavy user of the programming language.
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