Late-Stage Software Feature Reduction Tool for Security and Performance

An object-oriented programming language such as Java is often the developer's choice for implementing applications, primarily due to its mature ecosystem, rich community resources, and quick development cycle. Performance degradation and security can be one of the tradeoffs for feature-rich Java libraries, third party code, and open-source tools that are leveraged to speed up time to market. Applications contain only partially used code and libraries, causing the exploitable attack surface to be larger than it needs to be. PJR is proposing Artus Java, an automated software refactoring tool that allows the user to selectively remove unwanted features and/or functionality for a Java software product. Artus Java will be a desktop software tool that leverages research and novel approaches to using call graphics, dependency mapping, and code slicing to identify features, unused code, and libraries that can be removed from Java applications. It will also provide feature and functionality testing, security scanning, and performance metrics for the application before and after the code reduction and refactoring process.