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CycloneDX SBOM Model and Utils for Creating and Validating BOMs

From CycloneDX·Updated June 25, 2026·View on GitHub·

The CycloneDX core module provides a model representation of the SBOM along with utilities to assist in creating, validating, and parsing SBOMs. OWASP CycloneDX is a full-stack Bill of Materials (BOM) standard that provides advanced supply chain capabilities for cyber risk reduction The project is written primarily in Java, distributed under the Apache License 2.0 license, first published in 2018. Key topics include: bill-of-materials, bom, cyclonedx, library, mbom.

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CycloneDX Core (Java)

The CycloneDX core module provides a model representation of the SBOM along with utilities to assist in creating,
validating, and parsing SBOMs. OWASP CycloneDX is a full-stack Bill of Materials (BOM) standard that provides advanced
supply chain capabilities for cyber risk reduction

Maven Usage

xml
<dependency> <groupId>org.cyclonedx</groupId> <artifactId>cyclonedx-core-java</artifactId> <version>12.0.1</version> </dependency>

CycloneDX Schema Support

The following table provides information on the version of this node module, the CycloneDX schema version supported,
as well as the output format options. Use the latest possible version of this library that is the compatible with
the CycloneDX version supported by the target system.

VersionSchema VersionFormat(s)
12.xCycloneDX v1.6.1XML/JSON
11.xCycloneDX v1.6.1XML/JSON
10.xCycloneDX v1.6.1XML/JSON
9.xCycloneDX v1.6XML/JSON
8.xCycloneDX v1.5XML/JSON
7.xCycloneDX v1.4XML/JSON
6.xCycloneDX v1.4XML/JSON
5.xCycloneDX v1.3XML/JSON
4.xCycloneDX v1.2XML/JSON
3.xCycloneDX v1.2XML/JSON
2.xCycloneDX v1.1XML
1.xCycloneDX v1.0XML

Library API Documentation

The library API documentation can be viewed online at https://cyclonedx.github.io/cyclonedx-core-java/.

Updating the license list

  1. Download the latest tagged release from this repo.
  2. Extract the archived directory.
  3. Navigate to the license-list-vX.X.X/text/ directory.
  4. Copy all licenses from that directory to the src/main/java/resources/licenses/ directory in this repo.
  5. Copy license-list-vX.X.X/json/licenses.json into the src/main/java/resources/licenses/ directory in this repo.
  6. Download this file (ex: curl http://cyclonedx.org/schema/spdx.schema.json -o spdx.schema.json). The $comment field should match the version you donwloaded from GitHub. Copy this file into src/main/resources/.
  7. Download this file (ex curl https://cyclonedx.org/schema/spdx.xsd -o spdx.xsd). The version field should match the version you donwloaded from GitHub. Copy this file into src/main/resources/.

CycloneDX Core (Java) is Copyright (c) OWASP Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

Permission to modify and redistribute is granted under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license. See the License file for the full license.

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