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.

Java Card 3 implementations

The Java Card 3 spec was released by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle) in 2008 but its adoption by vendors has been very slow. A list of currently available Java Card 3 implementations can be found here on OTN. For convenience, here is a shortlist of the vendors:

• CardLogix
• Giesecke&Devrient