Hello, IBM has released JPC/SC which is a Java Wrapper Class for the PC/SC API's that has been tested on Windows and Linux. It is available under the Middleware portion of the website..... Dave ************************************************************* David Corcoran Internet Security/Smartcards Home: Purdue University 1008 Cherry Lane Department of Computer Science West Lafayette, IN 47906 Home: (765) 463-0096 Cell: (765) 532-6006 http://www.linuxnet.com ************************************************************* *************************************************************** Linux Smart Card Developers - M.U.S.C.L.E. (Movement for the Use of Smart Cards in a Linux Environment) http://www.linuxnet.com/smartcard/index.html ***************************************************************