And, as i said before: try to avoid jss, cause its not "officially supported" by mozilla.
2011/11/25 Douglas E. Engert <deeng...@anl.gov>: > > > On 11/24/2011 4:02 AM, Anders Rundgren wrote: >> Hi Ludovic, >> >> You are a true smart card middleware expert. >> I'm not and my customers are even less of that. >> They just want to plug in and go. >> >> As it appears the smart card community/industry have created >> uniquely complex middleware for reasons unclear to me. > > I never could understand it, either. > >> It is >> proven beyond doubt that the platform vendors can't keep up >> with it either [2]. Do they even bother testing this stuff? >> >> I understand that there are "layers" but if not even "layer-0" >> works right-out-of-the-box the value of java-based software is >> greatly reduced. "Write once run everywhere" actually works >> for sophisticated applications like EJBCA http://ejbca.org >> without low-level platform tweaks. >> > Since it sounds like your problem is more they trying to get > the javax.smartcardio.* to run, but more of access to smartcards > from java, > > Have you read: > > http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/security/ > > SunMSCAPI for Windows, > SunPKCS11 for PKCS#11 platforms. > > It also talkes about NSS. > > another possible interface is Mozilla NSS for java. > Since NSS calls PKCS#11 security devices, it should work > on many platforms > > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/jss/ > >> Anders >> unconvinced >> >> On 2011-11-24 10:31, Ludovic Rousseau wrote: >>> 2011/11/23 Anders Rundgren<anders.rundg...@telia.com>: >>>> Hi, >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>>> I just wonder what your opinion is about Java smart card io which is a >>>> part of JDK 1.6 and forward. >>>> >>>> I did a minute test and it wasn't overly convincing :-( >>>> >>>> OTOH, as we all know that smart card middle ware is "hell on earth" I >>>> may simple haven't given it enough time. >>> >>> Do you know "PCSC sample in Java" [1]? >>> >>>> import javax.smartcardio.*; >>>> import java.util.List; >>>> >>>> public class smart >>>> { >>>> public static void main (String[] args) >>>> { >>>> try >>>> { >>>> // show the list of available terminals >>>> TerminalFactory factory = TerminalFactory.getDefault(); >>>> List<CardTerminal> terminals = factory.terminals().list(); >>>> >>>> // get the first terminal >>>> if (terminals.isEmpty ()) >>>> { >>>> System.out.println ("No terminals found!"); >>>> } >>>> else >>>> { >>>> System.out.println("Terminals: " + terminals); >>>> CardTerminal terminal = terminals.get(0); >>>> // establish a connection with the card >>>> Card card = terminal.connect("T=0"); >>>> System.out.println("card: " + card); >>>> CardChannel channel = card.getBasicChannel(); >>>> // disconnect >>>> card.disconnect(false); >>>> } >>>> } >>>> catch (Exception e) >>>> { >>>> e.printStackTrace (); >>>> } >>>> } >>>> } >>>> >>>> On windows you get an exception if there is no reader connected! >>> >>> I can't tell about Windows. >>> >>>> On Ubuntu I always get No terminals found! >>> >>> Ubuntu has a special configuration of pcsc-lite. Read "pcsc-lite >>> upgrade and Ubuntu special configuration" [2]. >>> >>>> On both machines I have other smart card apps working including pcscd on >>>> Ubuntu >>>> that in debug mode shows that the card is connected etc. >>> >>> You have not tried hard enough :-) >>> >>> Bye, >>> >>> [1] http://ludovicrousseau.blogspot.com/2010/06/pcsc-sample-in-java.html >>> [2] >>> http://ludovicrousseau.blogspot.com/2010/10/pcsc-lite-upgrade-and-ubuntu-special.html >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> opensc-devel mailing list >> opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org >> http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel >> >> > > -- > > Douglas E. Engert <deeng...@anl.gov> > Argonne National Laboratory > 9700 South Cass Avenue > Argonne, Illinois 60439 > (630) 252-5444 > _______________________________________________ > opensc-devel mailing list > opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org > http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel > _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
