Gemplus has taken great strides to improve their OCF compatibility. At their
developers' conference this month they unveiled a number of initiatives
incuding smartX and SML. This is specifically designed for the OCF and
provides a card service which reads XML definition files for each card with
which they are expected to work. The XML file contains descriptions of the
methods available and the APDU sequences which need to be sent to a card.
The idea behind this is that a developer no longer even needs to construct a
card service - simply defines the card edge view as a piece of XML. They
have kicked off the initiaive by providing XML libraries for their own
cards.
They have other initiatives underway to improve the OCF CardService support
for their own cards as well as re-examining their development tools to make
them less proprietry.
You should take a look at www.smartxml.com
I should point out that I'm not a Gemplus employee - I just think that this
is a big step in the right direction!
Regards
Dave Durbin
JCP Computer Services Ltd.
www.jcp.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: George Tasiopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jeffery Tay Boon Chuan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 25 June 1999 13:58
Subject: Re: [OCF] OCF and Visa Open Platform
> Jeffrey-
>
> I am not too current on Visa platform but OCF is supposed to
> provide you with an abstract framework that provides applications
> an interface across all vendors, (smart card readers and applications that
support
> OCF).
>
> I previously bought GemXpresso and found it is Gemplus' proprietary SDK
> for their cards/readers and not intended for cross-platform.
>
> Since I am not aware of the details behind Visa, I can only guess
> that it is more of 'payment' focused framework, (don't hold me to that).
>
> This is the perception I have and would like confirmation myself.
> Anyone have anything to add/subtract?
>
> -george
>
>
> Jeffery Tay Boon Chuan wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I would like to know the difference between these two specification. Are
> > they the same? If not, where should I start for OCF? Currently, I have a
> > Gemplus GemXpresso kit. It's a java card.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jeffery
> >
> > Visit the OpenCard Framework's WWW site at http://www.opencard.org/ for
> > access to documentation, code, presentations, and OCF announcements.
>
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