Chip And PIn Card Host Application

Hi

I'm trying to find information on writing a Java host application to authorise a credit/debit card transaction. I have a chip and pin device which has an ISO7816 compatible API. I was wondering if there are any java APIs/source code or examples on implementing this type of host application. The only information I have found is about running applications on the smartcard whereas I just want to talk to it from our POS application.

I have started writing my own host application but ISO7816 is pretty low level and its going to take a while for me to implement correctly.

Has anyone got any information or examples they can point me to?

TIA

[676 byte] By [FunkyHippya] at [2007-11-27 9:53:00]