This page is the Gemplus Developers Technical Library for OpenCard. It includes documents of the following types: Introductory, Technical Generic (about OCF), Technical Components (about CardTerminals and CardServices).

Introductory Documents

General Information Web Document

This document is an introduction to the concepts of OpenCard.

Technical Docs

Gemplus provides technical documentations for developers using OpenCard version 1.1.1 or 1.2. When the document is available on the official OpenCard web site, the link to the original document is provided in the last column.

This section provides both a good starting point and reference base for OCF components developers or application/service providers that are using OCF components.

OpenCard 1.1.1 General Documentation

This table lists the available documents, by order of growing complexity (from starters to experience developers).

OpenCard 1.2 General Documentation

This table lists the available documents for the current version of the framework (OCF 1.2), by order of growing complexity (from starters to experience developers).

This section will be updated soon with more FAQs and code samples.

Gemplus Components Documentation

In this table, the documents are extracted from the software packages that are distributed by Gemplus.