Smart Card Application Development Using Java

In today's world, smart cards play an increasingly important role in everyday life. We encounter them as credit cards, loyalty cards, electronic purses, health cards, & as secure tokens for authentication or digital signature. Their small size & the compatibility of their form with the magnetic stripe card make them the ideal carriers of personal information such as secret keys, passwords, customization profiles, & medical emergency information. This book provides a guide for the rapid development of smart card applications using Java & the OpenCard Framework. It gives you the basic information you need about smart cards & 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 along with the book will help you to quickly get some first hands-on experience.Thomas Schaeck is the author of 'Smart Card Application Development Using Java', published 1999 under ISBN 9783540658290 and ISBN 3540658297.