1. Development Kit User Guide
  2. Setup, Samples and Tools
  3. Developing Java Card Applications
  4. Java Card Development Kit Components

Java Card Development Kit Components

The development kit is available as two independent downloads.

Java Card Development Kit Simulator - Includes a Java Card simulation environment, Eclipse plug-in, and the associated testing and debugging tools. It provides support for the latest Java Card Specification, and can also run applications written for earlier releases.

  • cref - The Java Card simulator. There are three versions of cref to handle various communication protocols.

  • scriptgen - The off-card installer, of which scriptgen is a part, resides on the desktop and generates script files for apdutool's use. See Packaging and Deploying Your Application.

  • apdutool - A client-side tool, which sends the APDU commands to the RE and your on-card applet application. During the application deployment process, you can use it to read the output script file generated by scriptgen to send it to the Card Manager application. See Packaging and Deploying Your Application.

  • Eclipse plug-in - The plug-in provides a way to run the rest of the tools in this list from inside Eclipse. Running the Samples in Eclipse

Java Card Development Kit Tools - Used to convert and verify Java Card applications. The Tools can be used with products based on version 3.1, 3.0.5, and 3.0.4 of the Java Card Specifications.