Archive for October 2008

R8: Think about New Architecture

After the exam, we had gathered two meeting with our supervisor Dr. Chandana Gamage. After our discussions with the supervisor, we had to change the system architecture. According to our previous architecture we planned to have the eID system in between the Reliant Party (RP) and the clients. For that architecture we identified there is [...]

R8: Vacation during Project

Its Vacation during Project, not Project during Vacation I started back working on the project couple of days after the exam. The first thing we had to do was to finalize the architecture in the online authentication and web services part. Malalasena and Shayanthan who were working on the WS part encountered some problems that [...]

R8: Messing around with Java card

Just after the first semester exams finished, I started the reading and implementation works in a smart card environment according to the decision made in the meeting with our project superviser. First I had to learn about the smart card basics, programming techniques and then set up the development environment. I went through several hardships [...]

Meeting with Project Supervisor (24-10-2008)

We had a meeting with our project supervisor Dr.Chandana Gamage today from 1.30pm to 2.15pm. After yesterday’s meeting we had a brainstorming session with all group members and discussed about the options we have for the system architecture of the eID system. So we arrange today’s meeting to discuss further on this and finalize the [...]

Options for architecture. Which we select?

After the meeting with our project supervisor yesterday, we decided to review the two architectures for online authentication mechanism. I’d like to present some of our findings and thoughts on these two in this post. The first architecture is the one that we already had. In that model eID systems stays in the middle in [...]

Meeting with Project Supervisor (23-10-2008)

We had a meeting with our project supervisor Dr.Chandana Gamage today from 11.45am to 12.45am. Today’s meeting was very important as we were able to identify many issues and problems to be considered in our project. I think this is due to the shortcomings in our initial design phase, but at least we found this [...]

Functions of Java Card Applet

Select method The select method tells the JCRE if the applet is ready to process requests, by returning a true value. If the applet is not ready to accept processing requests, the select method returns a false value. Deselect method If an applet is selected and you want to select an applet with a different [...]

R8: Problems, me and web services

After the exam, I resume development of the web service. That was my first experience with web service development. So, I developed the web service while learning the web service development with apache Axis2, WSAS (WSO2 Web Service Application Server) and eclipse IDE. While developing the web service I figured out some problems with our [...]