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HCL AppScan Source

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HCL® AppScan® Source for Development (Eclipse Plug-in)
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The Ounce/Ant build tool
This section describes how to use Ounce/Ant, an AppScan® Source build utility that integrates AppScan Source and Apache Ant. Integrating Ounce/Ant with your Ant environment helps you automate builds and code assessments.
Creating projects
The ounceCreateProject task generates AppScan® Source projects.
ounceWeb

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- The Ounce/Make build utility
  Ounce/Make is a tool that automates the importing of configuration information into AppScan® Source from build environments that use makefile. Ounce/Make eliminates the need to import configuration information from makefiles manually.
- AppScan® Source command line interface (CLI)
  The CLI is an interface to core AppScan® Source functionality.
- The Ounce/Ant build tool
  This section describes how to use Ounce/Ant, an AppScan® Source build utility that integrates AppScan Source and Apache Ant. Integrating Ounce/Ant with your Ant environment helps you automate builds and code assessments.
  - Ounce/Ant and Apache/Ant integration
    The steps outlined in this task topic are necessary to integrate Ounce/Ant into the Apache/Ant build environment.
  - Creating projects
    The ounceCreateProject task generates AppScan® Source projects.
    - ounceCreateProject
    - ounceSourceRoot
    - ounceWeb
    - ounceExclude
    - Naming projects
      You can name a project using the default naming convention or by creating a project name manually.
  - Creating and naming applications
    Ounce/Ant can create AppScan® Source applications during operation and group the created AppScan Source projects into the applications.
  - Build integration
    The ounceCli task allows access to the AppScan® Source command line interface (CLI) to scan during a build. The ounceCli task can invoke cli from Ant.
- AppScan® Source Data Access API
  The Data Access API provides access to AppScan® Source-generated assessment results, including findings and finding details. It also provides access to assessment metrics such as analysis date and time, lines of code, V-density, and number of findings.
- Ounce/Maven plug-in
  This section describes the Ounce/Maven plug-in, which uses Maven, an Apache build tool, to integrate AppScan® Source into the Maven workflow.
- AppScan® Source for Automation
  The Automation Server (ounceautod) allows you to automate key aspects of the AppScan® Source workflow and integrate security with build environments during the software development life cycle (SDLC). The Automation Server allows you to queue requests to scan and publish assessments, and generate reports on the security of application code.
- Framework for Frameworks handling APIs
  AppScan® Source provides a set of Java™ APIs that allow you to add support for frameworks that are used in your applications. The classes and methods offered in these APIs allow you to account for frameworks for which built-in support is not provided.
- AppScan® Source client component error messages
- AppScan® Source for Analysis samples
  AppScan® Source for Analysis includes a sample applicationsample applications that you can use to familiarize yourself with the product.
- The AppScan® Source for Analysis work environment
  To get the most out of AppScan® Source, you should understand the basic concepts behind the AppScan Source for Analysis working environment and how to use the options that best fit your workflow.
- Views and windows
  AppScan® Source for Development views and windows provide alternative presentations of findings, support code editing, and allow you to navigate the information in your workbench. A view might appear by itself, or stacked with other views in a tabbed notebook. You can change the layout of a perspective or window layout by opening and closing views and by docking them in different positions in the Workbench window.
- CWE support
  The Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is an industry standard list that provides common names for publicly known software weaknesses. This topic lists the CWE IDs that are supported in the current version of AppScan® Source.

`ounceWeb`

ounceWeb accepts the following parameters specified as attributes.


Parameters Specified as Attributes	Description
`webContextRoot`	Path to a valid web context root or war file.

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