C H A P T E R 1

Introduction

The Java Card platform, version 2.2.2 development kit comes with a set of command line tools to help developers create, verify and test their Java Card-based applications. Those tools use Apache Ant, but users are not required to use Ant directly. For more information on the development tools and how Ant is used by them, refer to Development Kit User's Guide for the Java Card Platform, Version 2.2.2.

However, the Ant tasks as described in this book are included in the Ant tasks bundle, not the development kit. These Ant tasks are designed for Ant users who might wish to use them to make use of the development kit tools more efficient. Use of the Ant tasks as described in this book is strictly optional and not supported by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Javadoc trademark tool files for the Ant tasks are located in this bundle in HTML format at java_card_kit-2_2_2/ant-tasks/docs/html/javadocs. A compilation of the Javadoc tool files in PDF format is at java_card_kit-2_2_2/ant-tasks/docs/pdf/ant-tasks-javadocs.pdf.