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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.
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.
Automation Server logging

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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; this the recommended method of configuring these projects.
- 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.
- 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.
  - Data Access API object model
  - Using the Data Access API
    You can find complete examples for a number of Data Access API scenarios in the SamplePublished.java and SampleSdk.java files included in <install_dir>\sdk\sample\com\ouncelabs\sdk\sample (where <install_dir> is the location of your AppScan® Source installation).
  - Data Access API classes and methods
  - 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.
    - Specifying Automation Server login credentials from the command line
      If you did not specify Automation Server login credentials during the installation process, you must configure the Automation Server after installation to run as an AppScan® Source user.
    - The Automation Server configuration file
    - Automation Server logging
    - Using Ounceauto from the command line
      The interface to AppScan® Source for Automation, ounceauto, issues commands to the server specified by command line arguments, prints the output, if any, and returns. Each request is assigned a Request ID, and all log entries regarding the request contain the Request ID for identification purposes.
  - 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.
- Glossary
  Learn common product terminology.

Automation Server logging

The Automation Server generates a log file, ounceautod.log, which logs every request made to the Automation Server as well as the response. Log entries reside in <data_dir>\logs\ounceautod.log (where <data_dir> is the location of your AppScan® Source program data, as described in Installation and user data file locations).

The Automation Server logs the following events for all requests:

Request received
Request started
Request finished
Request failed

Each log entry contains:

Log entry timestamp
Event type
Request type
Request ID
Caller, if specified
Request specific information