Java 5 HTML escaping To Prevent XSS

Question

I\'m looking into some XSS prevention in my Java application.

I currently have custom built routines that will escape any HTML stored in the database for safe displa

Answer 1

not built-in, but check out the owasp esapi filter, it should do what you're looking for and more. It is a great open source security library written by the smart guys&girls at Owasp ("Open Web Application Security Project").