How many big players in SmartCard area are using JavaCard Technology ?

[shailesh sonavadekar]

There are only handful of companies like american express , mastercard , visa , citibank etc. in the business. How many of them are using JavaCard Technology ? What are the benefits of using Java in Plastic ? Where is the major development is going on in these area ?

[Kavita Ghia]

Hello Shailesh,
I can answer your question partly-the major SmartCard players using JavaCard technology that I know are Gemplus, Sun Microsystems and Visa International.

Regards,
Folk at JavaRanch,
Kavita.

[Eric Giguere]

Also, the GSM standard now supports JavaCard for the SIM cards used in cellphones. Don't know if any phones shipping use it yet, though.
Eric
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Eric Giguere
author of:
Java 2 Micro Edition : A Professional Developer's Guide
PalmTM Database Programming: The Complete Developer's Guide