Hi Douglas and Lewis, If you would like to develop and test smart card applets, the least expensive way to do this (because no hardware is required and the software is free) is to download and install the iB-IDE, as described at http://www.ibutton.com/iB-IDE/index.html This code is written in Java, so it should execute on a variety of computing platforms. Since the code contains an emulator for the Java-Powered iButton (i.e., the Dallas Semiconductor "smartcard"), you can develop and test your smartcard applets using the iB-IDE development environment alone. iB-IDE is also built around the OCF. I would also like to clear up a misconception with regard to TMEX. As currently structured, TMEX is designed to communicate with Dallas Semiconductor's many 1-Wire devices other than the Java-Powered iButton. That includes addressable switches, temperature logging iButtons and sensors, memory iButtons, etc. According to the website referred to below, in the section entitled, "What is iBLab?", What is iBLab? iBLab is (intented to be) a replacement set of open source tools for accessing and manipulating Dallas Semiconductor's range of 'one touch memories', commonly known as iButtons. >From this description, it appears that the code provided there is intended to express the functionality of TMEX. As noted above, TMEX is not designed for development of smartcard applets. The tool for that development is iB-IDE. Why is iBlab? Because (at the time of initial writing), Dallas Semiconductor required developers to enter licence agreements with them in order to develop/resell software products that utilised the iButton technology. If TMEX is of interest to you, you should note that the terms under which TMEX is supplied to interested users have been liberalized since the comments above were drafted. If you are interested in these other 1-Wire devices that are not programmable like smart cards, you should check our website at http://www.iButton.com for the new policies. Steve Stephen M. Curry Director, Software Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dallas Semiconductor Corp. Voice (972)371-4995 4401 South Beltwood Pkwy. Fax (972)371-3715 Dallas, Texas 75244-3292 > ---------- > From: Lewis McCarthy[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 4:51 PM > To: Douglas Allen > Cc: OCF List > Subject: Re: [OCF] no kit requiered > > Hi Douglas, > > Douglas Allen wrote: > > I am working to develop a smart card applet without the aid of a > > manufacturers development kit. > > What I have is a Litronic 210 reader, schlumberger Cyberflex cards , I'm > > using OCF1.1.1 , and I have the jc21. > > If you're not committed to your current card and terminal, you might > want to examine AL Digital's iBLab tools for the DalSemi iButton > <http://anoncvs.aldigital.co.uk/iBLab/>. > > According to the iBLab homepage: > "iBLab is (intented to be) a replacement set of open > source tools for accessing and manipulating Dallas > Semiconductor's range of 'one touch memories', > commonly known as iButtons. > [...] > "Why is iBlab? > Because (at the time of initial writing), Dallas > Semiconductor required developers to enter licence > agreements with them in order to develop/resell > software products that utilised the iButton technology." > > Hope this helps > -Lewis McCarthy > Software Engineer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > XETI http://www.xeti.com > > Disclaimers: I don't speak for XETI, andI haven't tried iBLab. > Visit the OpenCard Framework's WWW site at http://www.opencard.org/ for > access to documentation, code, presentations, and OCF announcements. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > To unsubscribe from the OCF Mailing list, send a mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with the word "unsubscribe" in the BODY of > the > message. > Visit the OpenCard Framework's WWW site at http://www.opencard.org/ for access to documentation, code, presentations, and OCF announcements. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the OCF Mailing list, send a mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with the word "unsubscribe" in the BODY of the message.
