Importance of Security Features in Programming Languages: A Focus on JAVA

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Table of Contents
Abstract............................................................................................................................................3
Security features in programming language....................................................................................3
Background......................................................................................................................................4
Buffer Overflow...........................................................................................................................4
SQL injection...............................................................................................................................5
JAVA security features....................................................................................................................7
Vulnerabilities..................................................................................................................................8
C vs C++ vs JAVA..........................................................................................................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
Reference.......................................................................................................................................11

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Abstract
This report will discuss about the importance of the security system of the programming
platforms. This report will also discuss about the security features that are present in the platform
of JAVA. Vulnerabilities of the platform will also be discussed. This report will also state the
differences between the programming languages namely JAVA and C/C++. The report will end
with the discussion of the most secured programming language that can be used with utmost
efficiency.
Security features in programming language
The need of the security system in the programming platform is very important as the imposers
who want to gain data from the platforms of the programming language. This is the reason that
the processing of data that are present in the database of the application can be approached by the
imposters who are allowed to approach the data. To stop this approach security measures are
taken and hence the importances of security feature are measured.
Java has been leading the course of the programming language in terms of the security of the
platform. Java is termed as one of the most robust platforms in terms of programming platforms
are concerned with.
Java is considered to be more secured than the programming language C/C++. This is due
to the reason that the development of JAVA was done keeping in mind the security features the
programming platform. However, during the processing f the programming languages namely C
and C++ the security of the platform was never the major concern for the programmers who built
the processing of the project. Leading to the fact that the robustness of the JAVA platform is way

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m ore and higher than these platforms namely C and C++. The package does not matter inn case
of the private data type. The basic security feature of JAVA are as follows: -
 No use of pointers
 Exception handling concept
 Byte code is one of the most important thing that makes the platform very robust
 Tested Code reusability
 Access control function
 Protection from security attacks
 Garbage collection mechanism
 Type-safe reference casting in JVM
Background
Buffer Overflow
Buffer overflow occurs when the processing of the data tries to write more that the capacitive
data in the fixed length of block memory. In this case, the buffer, which is out of memory, stops
functioning leading to the fact that the processing of the data also stops. This ensures that the
entire process of buffer is put into hold (Lee, Jeong & Son, 2017). Due t the fact that buffer can
hold only a certain memory, the processing of the data is pre defined and the extra data that is
being hold can overwrite the data values in terms of the processing of the data to the adjacent
memory. This affect leads to the terminology that the data that are perfectly defined with the
usage of the flags, overwrite the data in the data table leading to the fact of string the most recent
data and overwriting the data that is already stored in the data table of the system that is dealing
with this feature.