Comments on: Java Card demos at Cartes

By: Philippe Bernard

Philippe Bernard — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:39:29 +0000

I was not able to see the demo on the Oberthur booth, only their NFC solution. Someday I will add a “Open my eyes” task in my Palm.

JSP eventually made its way to Java Card. Good! There was no technical reason not to do it.

By: Eric VÃ©tillard

Eric VÃ©tillard — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:13:17 +0000

@lexdabear

Many topics in your comment. On the OMA thing, this is another level of standardization, in which people are trying to define the protocol layers (remember, Java specs usually don’t define protocols). Java Card 3.0 is about defining an application model, which is another thing. The same thing happens on other servers. The servlet spec does not define TCP/IP and HTTP, it just relies on existing standards. OMA simply adapts these standards for cards.

About Gemalto, it is a big company now, and they certainly can’t ignore Microsoft. if they want to become a global company in digital security.

About the demos, I also liked the OCS demo better (hey, there was code in their demo), but one has to remember that Gemalto had a demo with mashups last year …

By: lexdabear

lexdabear — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:33:55 +0000

Eric, could you point out the differences between the smart card web server (SCWS, OMA) and the upcoming Java Card 3.0 technology? To me it seems like it’s two competing technologies. Earlier you also pointed out that Gemalto now includes all the companies that founded Java Card (http://javacard.vetilles.com/2007/02/06/the-java-card-forum-is-10-years-old/), so why they’re pushing for SCWS in another standardization body .. and what is this thing with .NET cards and Microsoft??
Personally I liked Oberthur’s demo in terms of Java Card next generation, using mashups.