Advanced control flow in Java card programming

Java Card technology simplifies the development of smart card applications by providing a high-level programming language similar to Java. However, the master-slave programming model used in current Java Card platform creates control flow difficulties when writing complex card programs, making it inconvenient, tedious, and error-prone to implement Java Card applications. This paper examines these drawbacks of the master-slave model and proposes a concurrent thread model for developing future Java Card programs, which is much closer to conventional Java network programming. This paper also presents a code translation algorithm and a corresponding tool that makes it possible to write card programs in the concurrent thread model without losing compatibility with the existing Java Card API. Categories and Subject Descriptors D.3.3 [Programming Languages]: Languages Constructs and Features—Control Structures; D.2.3 [Software Engineering]: Coding Tools and Techniques—Structured Progra...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: LCTRTS
• Authors: Peng Li, Steve Zdancewic
• Keywords: Card Applications, Card Programs, Java Card, LCTRTS 2004, Software Engineering