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On 18/07/01, 07:49:47, Laurent Lagosanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote regarding Re: [OCF] ANN: C-JCRE compatible CardTerminal:
> What do you mean precisely by "a CardServiceFactory that supports
GemXpresso 211PK" ?
> If you mean a CardService that allows you to download applets or
librairies into
> the card: use the ones included in the GemXpressoRAD, that's what they're
made for.
Hi Laurent,
GemXPressoRAD costs $699. That's not a massive amount of money, but it
depends on what scale of development you are working on.
I appreciate that a lot of resources have been invested in making the RAD
kit, but not everybody wants everything that is there, and/or can justify
the expense.
Take us for example. We are developing free OCF code for Wangjammers.org,
that we believe will make it much easier for Java developers to add
support for any cards (i.e. not just Gemplus, not just SLB, not just
DalSemi iButtons) in their Java applications, perhaps just as an "added
feature" and not as a core requirement of their application.
We realise this may be somewhat at-odds with the current card vendors'
desires, where you obviously have invested a lot in R&D and
understandably want everyone to use your cards and not the cards of
another vendor. :-)
However, we are talking about stimulating a new market for smartcards and
readers. This market is one where cards are not necessarily issued by the
application writer (but some may be offered for sale from their web site
too), and the application writer is perhaps a small independent company /
individual.
Imagine if every shareware application on the market supported the use of
GemPlus cards somehow. There's a lot of potential there.
That's what we've got in mind. We have the code for this, it works. It
will be released next week if testing goes as planned.
The trouble is that we are doing this for free. We can't get the funds to
buy every single card company's RAD kit, readers and cards. We need to
have these items to complete our XML "card info" file so that each
vendors' cards are supported.
Dallas Semiconductor have the right idea if you ask me � they have very
good mailing list support, all their software is free and
redistributable, and they even perform patches quickly.
We'd really like to support all Gemplus cards in the first proper release
of our DynamicCardServiceFactory project. To do this though, we need
software elements from the various SDKs (any non-standard applet
converter tools and class libraries) as well as specimen hardware and
documentation of APDUs required for listing, installing and removing
applications.
Marc
(AKA Wangjammer 5, [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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