JAVA CARD TECHNOLOGY FOR SMART CARDS: ARCHITECTURE AND PROGRAMMER S GUIDE FOREWORD BY PATRICE PEYRET

Java Card(TM) technology provides a secure, vendor-independent, ubiquitous Java(TM) 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 will finally enter the mainstream of application development. This book provides the authoritative and practical information you need to enter this rapidly growing arena. 0201703297B04062001 -- Build flexible, dynamic, platform-independent smart card applications -- from start to finish. -- Authoritative: By a member of the Java Card API team and leading financial Smart card application developer. -- Includes detailed code examples and comprehensive API reference. Smart cards are taking off: more than 3 billion will be in use by the end of the Year 2000. Smart card technologies and skills are in enormous demand -- especially, familiarity with Sun''s Java Card API. This specification brings Java technology to smart cards, enabling card issuers to build breakthrough platform-independent solutions, run multiple applications on the same card, and respond to changing customer needs by installing applications even after a card has been issued. This book is the first complete programmer''s guide and reference to the new Java Card 2.1 API. Through extensive code examples, it shows readers exactly how smart cards work -- and how to fully leverage the Java Card APIs in smart card deve