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Jaccal is an Open Source project, it's a set of smart card communications
API for Java applications.
Jaccal was developed to allow easy access to smart cards to more developers.
Traditionally smart card access is through bits and bytes and through
sending byte arrays to the smart card, and programming access to the smart
card is tedious and requires a great deal of understanding of the card
specifications.

Jaccal aims to simplify this arcane process by adding a layer that is easy
to understand for developers.

At the same time Jaccal provides a simple scripting interface (with a
Swing-based script editor called Anubis) for casual users who would like to
easily extract information from the smart card.

Jaccal is meant for 2 levels of users:

1. Developers not familiar with smart cards
* Write scripts for reading and validating card information
* Integrate Jaccal within your code to read/write information from/to the
card
* Write code that uses smart card information available through second-tier
packages such as jaccal-gsm

2. Developers familiar with smart cards
* Create optional packages to access your specific card (EMV card, identity
card, health card etc)
* Integrate your specific card with the Anubis smart card script editor;
Anubis will be your platform to read and display your specific card
information
* Anything you want to do with a smart card!

Check out the website:
http://jaccal.sourceforge.net/