JavaCard Specification

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Oracle specification enabling Java applets to run securely on smart cards with limited memory and processing resources.

  
  
The Java Card specification lets developers write applets in a constrained subset of Java that run inside a smart card's secure element, isolated from one another by an on-card firewall. Maintained originally by Sun and now Oracle, it brought platform independence to chips with only kilobytes of memory, so a single applet can run across cards from different silicon vendors. It is the dominant application platform for SIMs, payment cards, and government identity cards.

  
  

    
    JavaCard 3.1
    
    
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    Published 1996
    
    
  






  
  

    
    




    
    

    
    

    
    

      
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CategoryOther

            
            
            
Year Published1996

            
            
            
            
StatusActive

          
        

      

    


    
    

    
    

    
    
    
    

      
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JavaCard Development Card

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Open development smart card for loading custom Java applets, used for learning, prototyping, and testing smart card applications.

        
        
      

    

    
    

    
    
    
    

    
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