Very cool article, but since BeanShell is basically Java (and Java is
a horrible scripting language for a whole lot of obvious reasons) IMHO
this sort of mayhem is better conducted in something like JRuby or
Jython or even Groovy ( http://groovy.codehaus.org/) if one doesn't
already know with Ruby or Python.
All of Java Scripting languages should provide the same sort of
functionality in terms of inspecting objects, embedding interpreters,
etc.
- mdf
On 8/18/06, Stephen de Vries <stephen@corsaire.com> wrote:
http://www.corsaire.com/white-papers/060816-assessing-java-clients-
with-the-beanshell.pdf
Assessing the security of Java applications, and particularly client-
server applications, can be a tedious process of modifying the code,
compiling, deploying, testing and repeat. This becomes even more
difficult when the source code to the application is not available.
What security testers require is an easy means of interacting with
the internals of a Java application during execution without
recompiling the code.
The BeanShell (http://www.beanshell.org) provides an interpreted,
scripting environment that can plug in to any Java application or
applet and allows users to inspect and manipulate objects
dynamically. This paper demonstrates a technique for using the
BeanShell to assess the security of a typical Java client-server
application.
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Corsaire Ltd
E-mail: stephen@corsaire.com
Tel: +44 1483 226014
Fax: +44 1483 226068
Web: http://www.corsaire.com
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