Marcus Oestreicher wrote:
>
> Pete Chown wrote:
>
> Actually, are you sure that the iButton and the Schlumberger JavaCards
> use
> the same file format ? I would expect, that their converters create
> different
> file formats, e.g. you can not use the converter shipped by
> Schlumberger.
> Although the JavaCard 2.1. specification with a standard JavaCard file
> format
> has been released, there does not seem to exist any compliant
> implementation so
> far.
Correct, our convertor is different from probably everyone elses at this
point, JC 2.1 should change this. BTW, our convertor is written in
java.
> However, I would guess that the iButton people implemented the converter
> in
> Java ("the big thing") and that they use native code only for the lower
> level parts of the communication and you could therefore use their
> converter under Linux as well.
Correct, only the lowest level of communication with the iButton is
native
using our java version of the API, and if you use javax.comm, you could
make an argument that it's all java. :)
-Bryan
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