Easy to use Apache Ant task for building JavaCard CAP files in a declarative way.
Have a consistent and concise build declaration for JavaCard applets, no matter which JavaCard SDK version you use or target.
- Do What I Mean. You will love it!
- No dependencies, no extra or unrelated downloads. Just a ~50KB reproducible jar file.
- Supports all available JavaCard SDK versions: 2.1.2, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5, 3.1.0 and 3.2.0
- Get one from oracle.com or use the handy Github repository
- Works on all platforms with LTS Java 1.8+: Windows, OSX, Linux.
- Almost everything integrates or works with Ant.
- Trigger it from Maven or via Gradle wrapper
- Can be easily integrated into continuous integration workflows.
- Generates CAP files from sources or pre-compiled class files.
- Import external libraries: natural use of
.jar
libraries and/or.exp
files. - No restrictions on project folder layout (but
src/main/javacard
works).
Tip
Loading JavaCard applets is equally pleasing with GlobalPlatformPro
- Download
ant-javacard.jar
- Or use the download task:
<get src="https://github.com/martinpaljak/ant-javacard/releases/latest/download/ant-javacard.jar" dest="." skipexisting="true"/>
- Then load the task with the following in your
build.xml
file:
<taskdef name="javacard" classname="pro.javacard.ant.JavaCard" classpath="ant-javacard.jar"/>
- Now you can create applets within your Ant targets like this:
<javacard>
<cap jckit="/path/to/jckit_dir" aid="0102030405">
<applet class="myapplet.MyApplet" aid="0102030405060708"/>
</cap>
</javacard>
(which results in output similar to this)
target:
[cap] INFO: using JavaCard 3.0.5 SDK in sdks/jc305u4_kit
[cap] INFO: targeting JavaCard 2.2.2 SDK in sdks/jc222_kit
[cap] Setting package name to testapplets.empty
[cap] INFO: generated applet AID: A000000617008E5CDAAE01 for testapplets.empty.Empty
[cap] Building CAP with 1 applet from package testapplets.empty (AID: A000000617008E5CDAAE)
[cap] testapplets.empty.Empty A000000617008E5CDAAE01
[compile] Compiling files from /Users/martin/projects/ant-javacard/src/testapplets/empty
[compile] Compiling 1 source file to /var/folders/gf/_m9mq9td3lz32qv1hd4r12yw0000gn/T/jccpro841338375581620546
[cap] CAP saved to /Users/martin/projects/ant-javacard/Empty_A000000617008E5CDAAE_50da91a4_2.2.2.cap
Based on the JavaCard SDK and JDK version compatibility matrix.
- Targeting JC 3.0.4 or later (modern JavaCard-s)
- Use JDK 17 (don't forget to set
$JAVA_HOME
) - Use JavaCard SDK 3.2.0 (
jckit="sdks/jc320v24.0_kit"
) with right target (targetsdk="3.x.y"
) - NOTE: depending on your external components, absence of v2.3 export files will force you to stick with JavaCard SDK 3.1
- Use JDK 17 (don't forget to set
- Targeting JC 2.2.x or 3.0.1 (older JavaCard-s)
- Use JDK 11 (don't forget to set
$JAVA_HOME
) - Use JavaCard SDK 3.0.5u4 (
jckit="sdks/jc305u4_kit"
) with right target (targetsdk="sdks/jc222_kit"
)
- Use JDK 11 (don't forget to set
Note
ant-javacard will continue to support using legacy JavaCard 2.X SDK-s (and thus JDK-8) for as long as this is achievable with sane effort
Sample:
<javacard jckit="/path/to/jckit_dir1">
<cap targetsdk="/path/to/jckit_dir2" aid="0102030405" package="package.name" version="0.1" output="MyApplet.cap" sources="src/myapplet" classes="path/to/classes" export="mylib">
<applet class="myapplet.MyApplet" aid="0102030405060708"/>
<import exps="path/to/exps" jar="/path/to/lib.jar"/>
</cap>
</javacard>
Details:
javacard
tag - generic taskjckit
attribute - path to the JavaCard SDK that is used if individualcap
does not specify one. Optional ifcap
defines one, required otherwise.
cap
tag - construct a CAP filejckit
attribute - path to the JavaCard SDK to be used. Optional ifjavacard
defines one, required otherwise.targetsdk
attribute - path to the target JavaCard SDK (or"3.0.X"
target version when using JavaCard SDK v3.1), to be used for this CAP. Optional, value ofjckit
used by default. Allows to use a more recent converter to target older JavaCard platforms.sources
attribute - path(s) to Java source code, to be compiled against the JavaCard SDK. Eithersources
orclasses
is required, unlesssrc/main/javacard
orsrc/main/java
exists.sources2
attribute - additional sources to build per-platform applets. Optional, deprecated (use multiple paths forsources
)classes
attribute - path to pre-compiled class files to be assembled into a CAP file. If bothclasses
andsources
are specified, compiled class files will be put toclasses
folder, which is created if missing.includes
attribute - comma or space separated list of patterns of files that must be included (like**/SomeFile.java
).excludes
attribute - comma or space separated list of patterns of files that must be excluded.package
attribute - name of the package of the CAP file. Optional for applets - set to the parent package of the applet class if left unspecified, required for librariesversion
attribute - version of the package. Optional - defaults to 0.0 if left unspecified.aid
attribute - AID (hex) of the package. Recommended - or set to the 5 first bytes of the applet AID if left unspecified.output
attribute - path where to save the generated CAP file. Optional, see below for variables.export
attribtue - path (folder) where to place the JAR and generated EXP file. Optional.exportmap
attribtue - if set to true, use pre-defined export file. Optional.jar
attribute - path where to save the generated archive JAR file. Optional.jca
attribute - path where to save the generated JavaCard Assembly (JCA) file. Optional.verify
attribute - if set to false, disables verification of the resulting CAP file with offcardeverifier. Optional.debug
attribute - if set to true, generates debug CAP components. Optional.strip
attribute - if set to true, removes class files from target CAP. Optional.ints
attribute - if set to true, enables support for 32 bitint
type. Optional.
applet
tag - for creating an applet inside the CAPclass
attribute - class of the Applet where install() method is defined. Required.aid
attribute - AID (hex) of the applet. Recommended - or set to packageaid
+i
wherei
is index of the applet definition in the build.xml instruction
import
tag - for linking against external components/libraries, likeGPSystem
orOPSystem
exps
attribute - path to the folder keeping.exp
files. Optional. Required if file injar
does not include .exp files.jar
attribute - path to the JAR file for compilation. Required if usingsources
mode and not necessary withclasses
mode if java code is already compiled
Notes:
jc.home
property has the highest precedence, followed byjckit
path ofcap
, followed by path injavacard
, followed byJC_HOME
environment variable. SDK must be valid to be considered for use.- All source files are expected to be UTF-8. It is a sane choice, please use it.
The default file name template is %n_%a_%h_%j_%J.cap
which results in a file name similar to SomeApplet_010203040506_9a037e30_2.2.2_jdk11.cap
.
Following substitutions are available:
%h
- 8 character prefix (hex) of the SHA-256 Load File Data Block hash of the CAP file%H
- SHA-256 Load File Data Block hash (hex) of the CAP file%n
- common name of the entity, either applet class (if only one applet) or package name%p
- package name%a
- package AID (hex)%j
- targeted JavaCard version (ex: 3.0.5)%J
- used JDK version (ex: jdk11)
ant-javacard.jar
can be used to dump built .cap file metadata and to re-run off-card verifier.
- dump .cap file metadata
java -jar ant-javacard.jar <capfile>
- run off-card verifier
java -jar ant-javacard.jar <sdk> [<targetsdk>] <capfile> <expfiles>
JAVA_HOME
- path to the JDK to be used.JC_HOME
- path to the JavaCard SDK to be used if not specified in the build file.ANT_JAVACARD_TMP
- path to the temporary folder to be used for building CAP files. This is not cleaned after use.ANT_JAVACARD_DEBUG
- if set, shows debug output.
Releases are published to https://mvn.javacard.pro/maven/
. To use it, add this to your pom.xml
:
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>javacard-pro</id>
<url>https://mvn.javacard.pro/maven/</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
Pushes to Maven Central happen manually and only for selected final versions.
A random list of users, with a public link:
- Applets:
- IsoApplet by @philipWendland
- NdefApplet by @promovicz
- GidsApplet by @vletoux
- LedgerWalletApplet by @LedgerHQ
- KeePassNFC by @nfd
- PivApplet (PIV) by @arekinath
- OpenFIP201 (PIV) by @makinako
- Cryptonit (PIV) by @mbrossard
- HTOP NDEF by @petrs
- Yubikey OTP by @arekinath
- SmartPGP by @ANSSI-FR
- SatochipApplet (Bitcoin Hardware Wallet) by @Toporin
- SIMple-ID by @alan-turing-institute
- HelloSTK2 (SIM toolkit sample app) by @mrlnc
- NeoPGP by @mwalle
- EUCLEAK by NinjaLab
- Plus loads of academic projects, classes and papers.
- Integration projects:
- Other:
- You! Don't torture yourself with complexity, KISS!
- standard JavaCard SDK Ant tasks
- :( as cumbersome to use as the command line utilities
- :( not declarative/DWIM enough
- :) very explicit interface with all details exposed
- JavaCard Gradle plugin (MIT) - https://github.com/bertrandmartel/javacard-gradle-plugin
- :) Wraps ant-javacard for use with Gradle
- gradle-javacard (Apache 2.0) - https://github.com/fidesmo/gradle-javacard
- :) nice declarative interface
- :( requires gradle (40M download)
- :( JavaCard 2.2.2 only
- EclipseJCDE (Eclipse 1.0) - http://eclipse-jcde.sourceforge.net/
- :( JavaCard 2.2.2 only
- :( not possible to integrate in CI - depends on eclipse
- :( essentially an Eclipse GUI wrapper for JC SDK
- JCOP Tools
- :( not open source
- NetBeans IDE JC support
- :( not possible to integrate into CI
- :( JavaCard 3.0 only
- :( Netbeans, not cross platform
- Maven2 task from FedICT (LGPL3) - https://code.google.com/p/eid-quick-key-toolset
- :( Maven downloads half the internet before even simple tasks
- :( JavaCard 2.2.2 only
- Ant script files with templates
- :( XML is a very bad and verbose programming environment