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So, how do you interact with connected hardwares, then? For example, the company I'm working on have a interal-only, web application that interact with smart ca

• djKianoosh 11y ago
  havent looked it up in a while but isnt there a servlet based way to read smartcards? regardless, using applets to deal with smartcards seems oxymoronic ;)
  • superuser2 11y ago
    Because smart cards are hardware devices on the client, and nothing in HTML, CSS, or JavaScript gives you access to the client's USB ports.
    • gred 11y ago
      For now :-) https://wicg.github.io/webusb/ https://wicg.github.io/webusb/
    • djKianoosh 11y ago
      i guess i wasnt clear. i meant java servlets, not js. something like: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24351472/getattributejavax-servlet-request-x509certificate-not-set-spring-cxf-jetty http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24351472/getattributejava...
      • superuser2 11y ago
        For some reason actual smartcard applications seem to use proprietary applets rather than the open standards around client certs.
  • anta40 11y ago
    The tool is used to manage some our smart card applets. And since it web-based, we don't need to give the copy of the tool to other people. I don't write the tool, but maybe I can convince my supervisor to rewrite it into desktop app :)
• jordanthoms 11y ago
  If you can have your users install a chrome extension, you can use the native messaging APIs: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/nativeMessaging https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/nativeMessaging .
  • mhurron 11y ago
    One of the nice things about Java is it didn't force a specific web browser on the user. If you presented something to me that required Chrome, I would leave. I don't use Chrome and I do not wish to.
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• Sindisil 11y ago
  One option would be a Java WebStart application. You could reuse virtually all of your code.
• zac1944 11y ago
  http/2