This argument is often used by Java Card foes, often in conjunction to the “Java Card is slow” argument. The statement is effective, because most people don’t even bother to look deeper into its meaning. Here, we do not look at detailed figures and analyses, but we do look at possible reasons why this statement […]
Java Card versioning
All releases of Java produced by Sun Microsystems obey the same rules about version numbers. All version numbers are in the form x.y.z, or x.y when z=0. These values change as follows: Major release. x is incremented and y and z reset to 0 when an evolution is not backward compatible with the previous version […]
Topics
Anyone who knows me also knows that I am almost permanently ready to start a discussion on about about everything. For now, the discussion topics on this blog will fit mostly in two categories: Idées reçues. A French locution which does not translate well. The best translation I found is “cliché”, which does not quie […]
Hello world!
That’s it, the blog is created. It is just a question of putting a little content in it, making it public, and see how it goes. The idea is to blog about Java Card, its news, the future of it, and also to build little by little a small knowledge base that could be useful […]