Eclipse Steady vs OpenSCA

Eclipse Steady is an open-source tool for analyzing Java and Python applications that depend on open-source components with known vulnerabilities. It combines static and dynamic analysis to determine whether vulnerable code is reachable or executed in an application context, using a code-focused, usage-based assessment rather than metadata alone. The project includes Java and Python client tools, server-side REST services, and web frontends. Documentation covers Java scans for Maven, Gradle, and command-line workflows, plus Python command-line scanning. Jenkins and other continuous-integration systems can automate scans. Java Maven reports can be written as HTML, XML, or JSON. Its backend runs as a Docker Compose application during scans, storing vulnerability information and results. Initial setup processes code-level vulnerability data, followed by daily delta updates. Eclipse Steady is free under Apache License 2.0; version 3.2.5 is labeled an Incubator Project.

OpenSCA analyzes software components and dependencies for vulnerabilities and open-source license risks. It can be used through an IDE, command line or cloud platform, with online and offline use described. The CLI is available for Windows, Linux and macOS, and documented package ecosystems cover Java, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Go, Rust, Erlang and Python. OpenSCA generates SBOMs in DSDX, SPDX, CycloneDX and SWID formats; it can also take an SBOM as input to create a vulnerability report or convert formats. CLI report formats include JSON, XML, HTML, SQLite, CSV and SARIF. Its cloud vulnerability database covers CVE, CWE, NVD, CNVD and CNNVD, and configurable local databases and private package repositories are supported. Xcheck plugins are documented for IntelliJ IDEA and VS Code, and pull request scanning is supported. The free plan costs nothing. Parsing requirements.txt and requirements.in requires a pipenv environment and an internet connection.