I have a few questions for this new found interest in OCFWell I don't think anyone is proposing a radical change to the OCF architecture. For the time being it's just to tidy up the problems with the existing code and apply the patches to the PC/SC bridge. I just want a central resource of OCF related stuff thats up to date.
Will it follow the original design of cardterminal/cardservices...
and will it still use the PC/SC bridge or try some new Java platform port discovery mechanism ? ( ie, java terminals ). Also will this mechanism recognize USB ? I recall IBM was working on a Java USB solution on alphaworks but believe it died.
If the answers to both are yes, then, I'd rather just stick with the JPCSC solution from IBM. It's portable to Linux and is has smaller overhead than cardterminal/cardservices.Well you're free to use whatever you want, but I've tried JPCSC from version 0.3 and Muscle, and so far OCF and the PC/SC bridge seem to be more mature. I've tried various USB devices under Linux and none of them have worked bar the Towitoko readers.
PC/SC does have a smaller overhead but then it doesn't give you cardservices & sophisticated recognition of what cards are capable of. It's really a matter (as ever) of what you want to do.
I'm currently using the SmartMouse 1 OCF card driver with the RXTX javax.serial port under Linux and it works fine.
Jon.
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