Generating a CAP File from a Java Card Assembly File

Chapter 8 Generating a CAP File from a Java Card Assembly File

Use the capgen tool to generate a CAP file from a given Java Card Assembly file. The CAP file which is generated has the same contents as a CAP file produced by the Converter. The capgen tool is a backend to the Converter.

Running capgen

The file to invoke capgen is a shell script (capgen) on the Solaris or Linux platform, and a batch file (capgen.bat) on the Microsoft Windows 2000 platform.

Command line syntax for capgen is:

capgen [-options] <filename>

where <filename> is the Java Card Assembly file.

Command Line Options

The option values and their actions are:

TABLE 14 – capgen Command Line Options
Option	Description
`-help`	Prints a help message.
`-nobanner`	Suppresses all banner messages.
`-o` <filename>	Allows you to specify an output file. If the output file is not specified with the `-o` flag, output defaults to the file `a.jar` in the current directory.
`-version`	Outputs the version information.

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