I finally found some of the original Java Card 2.0 specifications. It was not all that straightforward, but globally, it was not that difficult, and I should have found all that earlier.
The first interesting is that there still is a Java Card 2.0 product page on Sun’s web site. Most of the content is gone, because it is supposed to be stored on some javasoft Web site. However, one piece can be saved, the Applet Developer’s Guide, which happen to be available in a HTML version.
More interesting, some guy has an image of the Java Card FTP repository around the end of 1997, including Godfrey Di Giorgi’s release notes for an intermediary release. Actually, the guy has a complete mirror of the ftp.javasoft.com site, with a lot of fun memories.
I will come back to the content of these specs and the amazingly fast work we did 10 years ago (a full spec produced and published in under 6 months), hopefully before the 10th anniversary of the Java Card 2.0 official release.
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