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OPAL is a Scala-based framework for the static analysis, manipulation and creation of Java bytecode.
OPAL is a Scala-based framework for the static analysis, manipulation and creation of Java bytecode. OPAL is designed with performance, scalability and adaptability in mind.
Its main components are:
- a library (
Common) which provides generally useful data-structures and algorithms for static analyses. - a framework for implementing lattice based static analyses (
Static Analysis Infrastructure) - a framework for parsing Java bytecode (
Bytecode Infrastructure- org.opalj.bi) that can be used to create arbitrary representations. - a library to create a one-to-one in-memory representation of Java bytecode
(
Bytecode Disassembler- org.opalj.da). - a library to convert this representation to Java class files (
Bytecode Creator- org.opalj.bc). - a library to create a representation of Java bytecode that facilitates writing
simple static analyses (
Bytecode Representation- org.opalj.br). - a library to create a stackless, three-address code representation of Java bytecode that facilitates writing
complex static analyses (
Three Address Code- org.opalj.tac). - a scalable, easily customizable framework for the abstract interpretation of
Java bytecode (
Abstract Interpretation Framework- org.opalj.ai). - a library to extract dependencies between code elements (
Dependencies Extraction- org.opalj.de) and to facilitate checking architecture definitions (Architecture Validation- org.opalj.av). - a library for the lightweight manipulation and creation of Java bytecode
(
Bytecode Assembler- org.opalj.ba). - a library for parsing Android packages (
APK- org.opalj.apk). - libraries for writing static analyses using the interprocedural finite distributive subset
(
IFDS- org.opalj.ifds) and interprocedural distributive environment (IDE- org.opal.ide) algorithms.
General Design Decisions
Thread Safety
Unless explicitly noted, OPAL is thread safe. I.e., the classes defined by OPAL can be considered to be thread safe unless otherwise stated. (For example, it is possible to read and process class files concurrently without explicit synchronization on the client side.)
No
nullValuesUnless explicitly noted, OPAL does not
nullvalues I.e., fields that are accessible will never containnullvalues and methods will never returnnull. If a method acceptsnullas a value for a parameter or returns anullvalue it is always explicitly documented. In general, the behavior of methods that are passednullvalues is undefined unless explicitly documented.No Typecasts for Collections
For efficiency reasons, OPAL sometimes uses mutable data-structures internally. After construction time, these data-structures are generally represented using their generic interfaces (e.g.,
scala.collection.{Set,Map}). However, a downcast (e.g., to add/remove elements) is always forbidden as it would effectively prevent thread-safety.Assertions
OPAL makes heavy use of Scala's Assertion Facility to facilitate writing correct code. Hence, for production builds (after thorough testing(!)) it is highly recommend to build OPAL again using
-Xdisable-assertions. - a library (