Hello,
tailorw-ncl wrote:
> Will there be any build-in "Command Processor" inside every card
> (Smart Card or Java Card), and this "Command Processor" I meant
> is responsable for deleting applet, manage card environment
> and runtime evironment, get(set) environment Parameters...
>
> or there is a standard set of APDU command for every Smart Card
> to manage a Card(Application) environment?
No, there is no such thing, to my knowledge of course. I know of
three "families" of multiple application cards: JavaCards, MULTOS,
and Windows for Smart Card. Each of them follow a different scheme
for managing applications (or applets). In JavaCard, it's even
worse as the standard does not even define APDUs for installing/
listing/removing applets, so in the first versions, they were all
propri�tary; now all new JavaCards that I know of follow a set of
specifications named "Open Platform" originally designed by Visa and
adopted by the entire JavaCard industry. That leaves you with three
different management scheme...
What we have done in OpenCard Framework, a Java middleware to access
cards, is to define a generic API for managing (installing, etc.)
applications on a card and so the application can call this API for
different types of cards. It will work of course only if the relevant
provider exist for the actual scheme. More details about this API at:
http://www.opencard.org/work/rfc-11-1/rfc-11-1.html (see the interface
named "AppletManagerCardService").
Hope it'll help.
Cheers,
Christophe.
= "If there is a better solution... find it." -- Thomas Edison =
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