Introduction

JCard kit is a solution for Java Card development, supporting developers using Eclipse with supported smart cards or simplely using a card simulator.

Motivation

• The Java Card developer must know the Java Card version 2.x, present in most of the market, even with all facilities of version 3.x.

• Developers do not have accessible mature tools for Java Card development.

• Configuring test environment (simulator) is a tedious task that discourages new Java Card developers withou real smart cards

Propose

Support the developer during coding, testing and deploy on real smart cards or EEPROM mask of a simulator, in a simple and intuitive way, so that the developer move to focus its effort in the source code.

JCard offer a kit of tools such as:

• Wizards for creating a wide variety of types of applets, configuring AID, libraries (JRE version)

• "Run" with target simulator (with the possibility of saving the mask of the EEPROM after the execution) or actual real cards compatible with the GlobalPlatform specification.

Features

JCard Kit is still under requirement definition.

Project status

June 07 2010: Defining requirements and development planning.