CWE-575β€”EJB Bad Practices: Use of AWT Swing

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

Metadata

CWE ID:
CWE-575
Abstraction:
Variant
Structure:
Simple
Status:
Draft
Release Date:
2006-12-15
Latest Modification Date:
2025-12-11

Weakness Name

EJB Bad Practices: Use of AWT Swing

Description

The product violates the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) specification by using AWT/Swing.

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 AWT functionality to attempt to output information to a display, or to input information from a keyboard." The specification justifies this requirement in the following way: "Most servers do not allow direct interaction between an application program and a keyboard/display attached to the server system."

Common Consequences

Scope:
Other
Impact:
Quality Degradation

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