Amen to that. PC/SC is pretty dire, and the MS implementation is dangerous. I say this after having personal experience of rendering 2 NT 4.0 workstations unuseable after installing a certain PC/SC driver & app.
This isn't totally Microsofts fault, as it was a 3rd party driver, but putting the PC/SC subsystem at such a deep level in the kernel causes big problems when it goes wrong. IMHO, the OCF architecture is superior and more elegant, and even more intuitive. Unfortunately a lot of card / terminal vendors are pretty conservative when it comes to such matters. Look how long it took before we saw dev kits for JavaCard patforms available for non-Win32 platforms. Jon. Marc Palmer wrote: > >>I noticed lately that your the only one answering the questions now Marc. >> > I > >>was just wondering where all other card experts are now... >> > > Well maybe they've all sold their souls to MS and PC/SC... > > If you ask me, Java's days as a smartcard host application platform are > only beginning. Let's just hope Sun don't let the Vendors give up on Java > as the host interface language. > > >>More power to you... >> > > Thanks, but I'm only posting occasionally. > > Cheers > --- > Visit the OpenCard web site at http://www.opencard.org/ for more > information on OpenCard---binaries, source code, documents. > This list is being archived at http://www.opencard.org/archive/opencard/ ! To unsubscribe from the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list send an email ! to ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! containing the word ! unsubscribe ! in the body.
