Java Card? Technology for Smart Cards: Architecture and Programmer's Guide (Java Series) - Softcover

Mike Hendrickson; Chen, Zhiqun

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201703297 ISBN 13: 9780201703290

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, 2000

Synopsis

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 development. Expert smart card developer and Java Card API team member Zhiqun Chen covers the entire Java Card language subset and all key programming concepts. Next, she presents a complete, integrated tutorial walking step-by-step through the creation of Java Card applets. The book also contains a thorough API reference. For all Java developers, smart card application developers, developers working with credit-card related applications, and builders of e-commerce and enterprise applications.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Java Card™ technology provides a secure, vendor-independent, ubiquitous Java™ 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.

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About the Author:

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 Framework.™

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About this edition

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0201703297
• ISBN 13: 9780201703290
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 392