The open-source development ecosystem has experienced a significant rise in malicious software components, putting enterprises on high alert for software supply chain attacks.

A significant supply chain attack hit NPM after 15 popular Gluestack packages with over 950,000 weekly downloads were compromised to include malicious code that acts as a remote access trojan (RAT).

Use Java's packages and static imports to organize top-level types and simplify access to their static members.

Create packages, import packaged classes and interfaces into your programs, move packages, and encapsulate them in jar files.