Smart Card Application Development Using Java [Paperback]

Uwe Hansmann (Author), Martin S. Nicklous (Author), Frank Seliger (Author), Thomas Schaeck (Author), Martin Scott Nicklous (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 22, 1999 | ISBN-10: 3540658297 | ISBN-13: 978-3540658290 | Edition: Book&Cards

In today's world, smart cards play a more important role every day. We encounter them as credit cards, loyalty cards, electronic purses, health cards and as secure tokens for authentication or digital signatures. Their small size and the form factor compatible with the magnetic strip card make them the ideal carrier for personal information like secret keys, passwords, customization profiles and medical emergency information. This book presents a road map for development of smart card applications using Java and OpenCard Framework. It provides information to understand how a smart card works. It shows in detail how to develop an application that accesses smart cards by guiding you through an example application. A smart card provided with the book will help the reader to gain some hands-on experience.

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From the Back Cover

In todays world, smart cards play an increasingly important role in everyday life. We encounter them as credit cards, loyalty cards, electronic purses, health cards, ands as secure tokens for authentication or digital signature. Their small size and the compatibility of their form with the magnetic stripe card make them ideal carriers of personal information such as secret keys, passwords, customization profiles, and medical emergency information. This book provides a guide for the rapid development of smart card applications using Java and the OpenCard Framework. It gives you the basic information you need about smart cards and how they work. It shows in detail how to develop applications that use smart cards by guiding you through examples step by step. A smart card provided with the book will help you to quickly get some first hands-on experience. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 292 pages
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Telos; Book&Cards edition (October 22, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3540658297
• ISBN-13: 978-3540658290
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,248,556 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is the only book that explains the OCF in details..., February 26, 2000

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M.BAHATTIN MERCAN (Istanbul, Turkey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Smart Card Application Development Using Java (Paperback)

As a person who is concerning in developing javacards via OCF, found this one very useful due to contents that it has on framework. You could get and develop off-card apps, if it does make sense to you..

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Overprice, Underweight, April 19, 2008

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S. Caupp (Cincinnati, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Smart Card Application Development Using Java (Paperback)

For the price of this book (which I see has now gone up even more!) there's too little of substance here. This is a very thin book with too much space taken up telling us how smart cards are used in industry, business, etc. all of which has nothing to do with getting smart cards going in *your* application. If you needed convincing that smart cards are useful for business applications you wouldn't be looking for this book, would you?

If you are an absolute beginner with smart cards you may get some useful tidbits of information here, but I don't think there's anything here you couldn't find through a couple hours of research via Google or from any smart card manufacturer's documentation. If this was a low cost beginning tutorial it might be of some value at one-fourth or one-fifth of its current price.

4.0 out of 5 stars Smart card application development using Java, October 29, 2006

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Benito Santiago Sanchez "smartcard developer" (Mexico City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Smart Card Application Development Using Java (Paperback)

I bought this book looking for a deeper reference regarding Javacard applets, native code in smartcards and so on. Neverthless I found the book very useful in the off-card stuff, because it explains in a very clear way how to access the terminal, send APDU's, etc., always using the Open Card Framework which is very important for us Java developers. I strongly recommend this if you are developing applications in Java that must access smartcards, but if you're developing also the on-card software, let's say the Javacard applets, then you must also get the book from Zhiqun Chen also available in amazon.