# Strengthening your Software Supply Chain

DevFeed: [Strengthening your Software Supply Chain](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/strengthening-your-software-supply-chain-23031.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.javaadvent.com/2025/12/strengthening-your-software-supply-chain.html>)

Author: Andres Almiray

Published: 2025-12-12T03:03:02Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Java Advent Calendar](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/java-advent-calendar.md>)

Topics: [supply-chain-security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/supply-chain-security.md>), [reproducible builds](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reproducible-builds.md>), [Java](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/java.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>), [Maven](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/maven.md>)

Tags: [2025](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2025.md>), [build-tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build-tools.md>), [dependencies](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dependencies.md>), [devops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devops.md>), [integrity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/integrity.md>), [java](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/java.md>), [reproducible-builds](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reproducible-builds.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [software-supply-chain](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-supply-chain.md>), [supply-chain](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/supply-chain.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how to strengthen the Java software supply chain beyond relying on build tools alone. It discusses SLSA security controls, attacks such as Log4Shell and the XZ backdoor, reproducible artifacts, and support from JReleaser for applying these practices.

## Source excerpt

According to Wikipedia, a software supply chain is the components, libraries, tools, and processes used to develop, build, and publish a software artifact. The Java space provides thousands upon thousands of libraries that may be consumed as dependencies for building projects. Many of these libraries rely on Apache Maven as their build tool of choice, [...] The post Strengthening your Software Supply Chain appeared first on JVM Advent.