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2026
Why Java Card Is the Logical Choice for SECORA™️ Pay M from Infineon
Find out why Infineon is using Java Card technology in their SECORA Pay M solution – details here
2025
Christian Kirchstaetter is selected as 2025 Bertrand Award Winner
Christian Kirchstaetter, Chairman of the Technical Committee (working at NXP) has been selected by his peers as this year’s winner of the Bertrand Award.
More details can be found here
Java Card Development Kit 25.1 is now available
Find out here about the updates
2025 Webinar Series – now open for registrations
Join us for the 6th year of JCF Webinars, covering topics such as PQC, automotive, Digital Currency, SE developing, surgical procedures and eSIM value added services.
Register here
Why Java Card is used by ST in their next generation payment solution
STMicroelectronics has unveiled STPay-Topaz-2, its next-generation contactless payment card system on chip (SoC) using Java Card technology – find out why here.
Java Card Development Kit 25.0 is now available
Find out here about the upgrades
2024
2024 Webinar Series – Webinars available for download
We have now come to the end of the 2024 Webinar Series and all Webinars + presentation slides are available for download here
Java Card Protection Profile 3.2 is available for download
Java Card Protection Profile 3.2 has been certified to level CC EAL 4 and is available for download on the Oracle website here
Nicolas Regnault is selected as 2024 Bertrand Award Winner
Nicolas Regnault of the Technical Committee (working at Thales) has been selected by his peers as this year’s winner of the Bertrand Award.
More details can be found here
jNet Secure joins Java Card Forum
The JCF is delighted to welcome jNet as a new member.
Details about jNet can be found here
2024 Webinar Series is now open for registration
Join us for the 5th year of Java Card Webinars, as we discuss the role of the Java Card platform in telecom, digital currencies, ID Wallet and payment.
Register here
Java Card Development Kit 24.1 is now available
Find out here about the upgrades from 24.0.
Java Card is ST’s platform of choice for eIdentity and eGovernment applications
STMicroelectronics has just revealed the STeID Java Card smartcard platform that meets state-of-the-art requirements for electronic identity (eID) and eGovernment use cases.
Find out more here
Java Card Development Kit 24.0 is now available
Find out here what improvements have been made.
