opencard.opt.applet
Interface AppletSelector

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractAppletAccessor, BasicEMVAppletAccess, ISOAppletSelector

public interface AppletSelector

The AppletSelector interface defines the minimum features that are necessary for working with card-resident applets.

Since:

OCF1.2

Version:

$Id: AppletSelector.java,v 1.2 2000/01/14 09:32:26 damke Exp $

Author:

Christophe.Muller@research.gemplus.com

See Also:

CardChannel, AppletID, AppletInfo

Method Summary

AppletInfo

selectApplet(CardChannel channel, AppletID appletIdentifier) Select a given applet with the specified AppletID.

Method Detail

selectApplet

AppletInfo selectApplet(CardChannel channel,
                        AppletID appletIdentifier)
                        throws CardServiceException,
                               CardTerminalException

Select a given applet with the specified AppletID.

Parameters:

channel - The CardChannel object that must be used if it is specified (if this argument is null, the function must allocate a new card channel).

appletIdentifier - The AppletID object referring to the applet to be selected.

Returns:

applet info
an AppletInfo object with the information that has been provided by the card (or at the minimum an AppletInfo object including the Applet AID). A ResponseAPDU object can be stored in the "data" attribute of the returned AppletInfo in order to provide more detailed information to the caller.

Throws:

CardTerminalException - Thrown when error occurs during the communication.

CardServiceException - Thrown when error occurs during execution of the operation.