1. Development Kit User Guide
  2. Setup, Samples and Tools
  3. Packaging and Deploying Your Application
  4. Installer Components and Data Flow

Installer Components and Data Flow

The following illustration shows the components of the installer and how they interact with the other parts of Java Card technology.

The off-card installer is the scriptgen. The on-card installer resides on the smart card. The apdutool is not considered an installer, but processes the output from the scriptgen and sends it to the on-card installer.

For more information about the installer, see the Java Card Platform Runtime Environment Specification, Classic Edition, Version 3.1.

Figure 8-1 Installer components


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Description of "Figure 8-1 Installer components"

The data flow of the installation process is as follows:

  1. The scriptgen takes the CAP file produced by the Converter and generates a script file that contains a sequence of APDU commands.

  2. This set of APDUs is read by apdutool tool and sent to the on-card installer.

  3. The on-card installer processes the CAP file contents contained in the APDU commands, and sends a response APDU containing a status and, optionally, the response data.