Java Card 3.0.5 released

Oracle released JC 3.0.5, including support for Java 7 and 8 and a new Eclipse development plugin. This is great news, but to my knowledge no card vendors currently sell smart cards that support Java Card 3.

Update on Java Card GDIs

For what it's worth, here are the most popular options currently available to Java Card developers:

• eclipse-jcde 0.1: Free plugin for Eclipse wrapping the Sun Java Card Development Kit. Use with Eclipse 3.5 (JDK1.5 or later) and JCDK 2.2.2 Classic , Java Card 2.2.2, GlobalPlatform 2.2 (including JC Export file 1.3). The GlobalPlatform API may also be useful for manually or programatically communicating with a smart card. If your target is Java Card 3.0, use Netbeans and JCDK3.0.1 instead.
  Note: a useful off-card interface for Java is Global Platform for Java SmartCardIO.
  
• Netbeans IDE 6.7: Free; use with Sun JCDK 3.0.1 Connected Edition.
• JCOP Tools 3.1.2: Free devkit from NXP (proprietary, requires an NDA). Use with Eclipse 3.3 (JDK1.4.2 or 1.5 only). Target OS is JCOP 2.2 (?). Includes libraries from GlobalPlatform 2.1.1, Java Card 2.2.1. Not all ECC functions (Java Card) are represented in the simulator.
  
• JCOP Tools 3.2.8: Latest version; free from NXP (proprietary, requires an NDA). Use with Eclipse 3.5 (JDK1.6). Target OS is JCOP 2.4.1 (supporting Java Card 2.2.2 and GlobalPlatform 2.1.1), and possibly JCOP 2.4.2 (Java Card 3.0, GlobalPlatform 2.2). Simulator includes most of the Java Card functionality.
• Giesecke&Devrient Sm@rtCafe Professional Toolkit 2.0: free demo. Supports Java Card 2.2.1 and GlobalPlatform 2.1.1; target OS is G&D Sm@rtCafe 3.x.

If there are more, please notify me.