Development

The project is build using maven and mainly based on Groovy and Java. It consists of the following components.

Module	Purpose	Stack
pickaxe-core	Core scan engine and checks loader.	Groovy
pickaxe-scans	Security checks lib on top of core and commandline interface. Depends on pickaxe core	Groovy
pickaxe-maven-plugin	Maven plugin for build integration. Depends on the pickaxe-core and pickaxe-scans modules	Java
pickaxe-examples	A number of example cases to demonstrate build and CI integration, custom checks and custom scans

How to build

Clone the project and run maven

mvn clean install

Clone the project and create a feature branch. Add you contribution and create a pull request.

Please make sure to unit test your changes. For new security checks please add a mock test.

Pull latest develop and master. Checkout the develop branch Run the following script from the root of the project.

./release.sh

Extending Pickaxe requires the following software packages to be available.