CycloneDX / CycloneDX/cyclonedx-maven-plugin
Add support for supplementing POM models
- Dominant language
- Java
- Stars
- 385
- Forks
- 108
- Avg merge
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Description
The quality of the generated SBOM strongly depends on the quality of a project's POM file and the POM files of its dependencies. In the short term it is impossible to fix the POM files of dependencies, so it would be useful to have a mechanism to override the effective POMs of those dependencies for the purposes of generating an SBOM.
The [Maven Remote Resources Plugin](https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-remote-resources-plugin/index.html) already provides such a mechanism in the form of a [`supplemental-models.xml` file](https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-remote-resources-plugin/supplemental-models.html). This file format could also be reused by the CycloneDX Maven Plugin.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reading the Maven Remote Resources Plugin supplemental-models.xml format and the CycloneDX Maven Plugin's POM-processing flow. Determine where supplemental models can be loaded and applied to dependency effective POMs, then verify that generated SBOM metadata reflects those overrides.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- build-system
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100