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Re: Elementary Questions: Java And Reading Security Cards

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Steve wrote:
> I have some very elementary questions.
> 
> Where I work we just hooked up card readers to our PCs, either by card 
> readers in the keyboards or via USB card readers.
> 
> What are these type of cards called?

IIRC, "smartcards".

> Can server side Java be used to read information off of these cards?

All you need is a way to connect the ends.

(Making it sound simple, but not necessarily easy.)

> If so what are the names of the libraries, APIs, extensions etc that I 
> would want to investigate?

HTTP. RMI. Web services.

If your card reader is here, and your server is there, you need one of two things 
to connect the two - a really long wire or a radio or a network. Okay, three.

Presumably your reader is on the "client" side of the client-server exchange. You 
need hardware to connect it to the connection, so to speak.

Example I use - I sometimes debug smartphones. The communication locally would 
be between the phone and the PC via a socket that a driver translates to USB signals.

Now I have my test environment on a server over there, but my phone on my 
workstation over here. I connect to there from here via SSH, with reverse port-forwarding 
to convince the server that port 6666 (for example) is the one at my end. So the server 
talks over an SSH tunnel to my port 6666 thinking it's its own local 6666. It's just 
like being there, only slower.

-- 
Lew

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Elementary Questions:  Java And Reading Security Cards Steve <tinker123@gmail.com> - 2012-12-06 09:45 -0500
  Re: Elementary Questions:  Java And Reading Security Cards Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-12-06 11:01 -0800
    Re: Elementary Questions:  Java And Reading Security Cards Steve <tinker123@gmail.com> - 2012-12-06 15:56 -0500
  Re: Elementary Questions:  Java And Reading Security Cards Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-12-06 14:47 -0800
    Re: Elementary Questions:  Java And Reading Security Cards Steve <tinker123@gmail.com> - 2012-12-07 10:01 -0500
      Re: Elementary Questions:  Java And Reading Security Cards Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-12-07 11:49 -0800
        Re: Elementary Questions:  Java And Reading Security Cards Steve <tinker123@gmail.com> - 2012-12-08 10:05 -0500
  Re: Elementary Questions:  Java And Reading Security Cards Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-12-06 14:58 -0800
    Re: Elementary Questions:  Java And Reading Security Cards Steve <tinker123@gmail.com> - 2012-12-07 10:05 -0500
      Re: Elementary Questions:  Java And Reading Security Cards Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-12-07 11:54 -0800
        Re: Elementary Questions:  Java And Reading Security Cards Steve <tinker123@gmail.com> - 2012-12-08 10:02 -0500
          Re: Elementary Questions:  Java And Reading Security Cards Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-12-08 16:27 -0800
            Re: Elementary Questions:  Java And Reading Security Cards Steve <tinker123@gmail.com> - 2012-12-10 11:28 -0500
              Re: Elementary Questions:  Java And Reading Security Cards Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-12-12 20:39 -0800
                Re: Elementary Questions:  Java And Reading Security Cards Steve <tinker123@gmail.com> - 2012-12-13 10:01 -0500
                Re: Elementary Questions:  Java And Reading Security Cards Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-12-17 02:57 -0800
  Re: Elementary Questions:  Java And Reading Security Cards Steve <tinker123@gmail.com> - 2012-12-10 11:30 -0500

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