ManningSecureJavaApplications

Developing Secure Java Applications for Manning liveProject

Java version

The program was developed on Java version 1.8, so you should download the latest JRE (and JDK if you want to build) to make sure you can work with the program in Eclipse.

Application server

The program was developed and tested with Apache Tomcat 8.5. If you plan on deploying and testing the (app not required for the project), make sure you have the latest version of Tomcat 8.5. The webapp was tested with a default Apache Tomcat and can simply be deployed by copying the WAR/SecureCoding.war file to the webapps directory under the Tomcat directory.

Folder structure is as follows:

lib - additional libraries needed to build webapp
src - source code
WAR - compiled .war file to deploy to Tomcat or for scanning
WebContent - webapp (.war) file content
.classpath - Eclipse classpath
.project - Eclipse project file
.settings - Eclipse settings folder

Help with Eclipse

Many Integrated Development Environment (IDE) tools are available for coding in Java, so pick the one you have used before. For this project, we use Eclipse. A resource link is provided below if you are interested in learning the basic workflow of how to use Eclipse. You will need the Java EE version of Eclipse to open the project. Import the project into Eclipse. If the project complains about the JRE library, you can following these steps to fix the issue:

Right-click the lab and choose properties
Go to Java Build Path
Click the Libraries tab
Click add Library
Choose JRE System Library
Select Workspace default

For further reading

These are resources not referenced in the liveProject but may be helpful to further your understanding of the liveProject's content.