Tag Archives: Java Card

[Work done from 1st December to 14th December 2008]

For the last two week period I was working on Client terminal application and the RMI implementation to the eID Java Card application. I had to refer to the manual and read through online forums to get some idea to sort out the problem in hand. This is now almost done and I’m on the track to meet the local deadlines.

During this period we had a meeting with our project supervisor and discussed the progress of the project. We are also getting ready for the WSA competition and our project has already been proposed. Now we are getting ready for a presentation plus demonstration on next Wednesday as requested by ICTA regarding this WSA competition.

We’ve also purchased two Java Cards and One reader/writer and it is now being shipped. As soon as it is arrived we can further boost up the progress and complete the implementation within this month

[Work done from 17th November to 30th November 2008]

We had our 3rd formal evaluations of the project during this period. So that I was working very hard to achieve my own deadlines to produce a working model of the Java card applet. I finally succeeded in developing the applet with signing and verification implemented, but the terminal application and the client side development was in the halfway. Because of that I was able to demonstrate the applet, installing, converting to CAP (Converted Applet), and deployment only. Without the terminal, I couldn’t send different APDU’s and demonstrate the output. But anyway our Supervisor and Project Coordinator were satisfied with the progress. It seems like I’m wearing the Java CAP all these days…!

Earlier to the final 3rd Demonstration, we did a trial demonstration to our Supervisor Dr.Chandana Gamage and got his feedback to further improve the quality of the system and the demonstration.

We also had two meeting with our Supervisor during this period and also had a meeting with a WSO2 personnel Mr.Nandana. Hope these will be really helpful to make the final system more productive

[Work done from 3rd November to 16th November 2008]

For the last two week period I was busy with completing my modules for the demonstration. I was doing the development in the Java card environment, I had to develop an applet which will be deployed in a Java card as a CAP file. The methods defined in these applets can be accessed in two methods, message passing model and Remote method invocation method. I’m developing a terminal application which is a normal java program which will reside in the local machine and can communicate with the Java smart card. This is very essential as this is the main component which can help to demonstrate the functionality of Java card applet. Otherwise the applet can be converted to a CAP file and deployed to a Java card, but there is no way to check the functionalities.

We had a meeting with our project supervisor Dr.Chandana Gamage and discussed the progress of the project. During the meeting we finalized the deliverables of the project. We are still updating our blog at project website blog.project-eid.org with the latest updates and progresses of the project. The project website is also being updated periodically.

In addition to the meeting with the supervisor, we had several group discussions and exchanged ideas. Each one of us are responsible for clearly separated modules of the project, and also we have to interact within those modules. For this purpose each one of us should be aware of other’s work. For this purpose we are having online conferencing whenever needed.