CWE-577

EJB Bad Practices: Use of Sockets
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The product violates the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) specification by using sockets.

Status
draft
Abstraction
variant
Java

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 attempt to listen on a socket, accept connections on a socket, or use a socket for multicast.' The specification justifies this requirement in the following way: 'The EJB architecture allows an enterprise bean instance to be a network socket client, but it does not allow it to be a network server. Allowing the instance to become a network server would conflict with the basic function of the enterprise bean-- to serve the EJB clients.'

Common Consequences

other
Impacts
quality degradation

Potential Mitigations

Phases:
architecture and design implementation
Descriptions:
• Do not use Sockets when writing EJBs.