Carl, On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 02:21 -0700, Carl Jokl wrote: > I don't know if anyone can help me but I wondered if anyone out there > has used the Java APIs for accessing smart cards. I read that these > are not part of Java 6 but are included with the Sun implementation. > All I want to do is get a student number off a smart card. Just 9 > bytes of information from the start of the card. As I have never done > anything with Smart Cards before I hoped someone might be able to > help. What I am trying to do should not be complicated.
According to http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/jre/api/security/smartcardio/spec/javax/smartcardio/package-summary.html the low-level API is part of Oracle (!) Java 6. This API is not present in OpenJDK 6 though. This is the ISO 7816-3/4 stuff so its the 9.6kb contacts, if you are using ISO 14443-A/B/C contactless it is not clear what you can do. Anything to do with smartcards is complicated, more so if your code is running on the card. I guess though you are only in the reader. Can't you get an off the shelf reader and then use its support? -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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