Description: This article introduces smart cards, gives a brief overview of Java Card[tm] technology, and by stepping you through the code of a sample applet distributed with a Java Card toolkit, shows you how to code a Java Card applet. This is the first in a series of articles on Java Card applets. After you write a Java Card applet, you're ready to test and deploy it. Future articles will describe how to perform those tasks. Here are the topics covered in this...