Java CardTM technology provides a secure, vendor-independent,
ubiquitous JavaTM platform for smart cards and other memory
constrained devices. It opens the smart card marketplace to
third-party application development and enables programmers to
develop smart card applications for a wide variety of vendors'
products.
This book is the comprehensive guide to developing applications
with Java Card technology. It introduces you to the Java Card
platform and features detailed discussions of programming concepts.
It also provides a step-by-step Java Card applet development guide
to get you up and running.
Specific topics covered include:
- Smart card basics
- Java Card virtual machine
- Persistent and transient objects
- Atomicity and transactions
- Handling APDUs
- Applet firewall and object sharing
- Java Card platform security
- A step-by-step applet development guide
- Applet optimization guidelines
- A comprehensive reference to Java Card APIs
With Java Card technology, smart card programming is finally entering
the mainstream of application development. This book provides the
authoritative and practical information you need to enter this rapidly
growing arena.
Zhiqun Chen is on the engineering team that designed and implemented
Java Card APIs and is currently working on Sun's Java Card virtual
machine reference implementation. She has extensive experience writing
financial applets with Java Card technology and was involved in developing
Open Platform card applications, Mondex terminal, and server applications
for Java Electronic Commerce FrameworkTM.
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