How to integrate Smart Cards in Standard Software without writing specific code ?

When you add a CD-ROM reader to your computer, this new device becomes integrated in part of your environment. The CD-ROM performs like a floppy disk. When using a spreadsheet and a word-processing, if you cut some cells in the first application you can paste these cells in the second application. These two services are provided by application software and operating systems (Windows for PC or System 7 for Apple Computer), but the end user does know nothing about the complex implementation of these services. With smart card it is not the same thing; you have to add an application software and a reader to your system. So, in many case this application is not really opened, it cannot be operated with other software. The main challenges for smart cards as for computer systems is to be opened. Today the SAG (SQL Access Group composed of major manufacturers, software providers and end users) has defined an open access method to data stored in many system like databases. This approach gives a unique CLI language (Call Level Interface) for applications that needs to make data requests. The first implementation of this recommendation is ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) from Microsoft. It is endorsed by a large panel of manufacturers and software providers. We propose to extend this approach to smart cards and software tools like drivers. In this case, all software products based on these standards can easily integrate smarts cards and their software tools without writing a specific program ! CQL a database server in a smart card that use CQL (Card Query Language) a subset of SQLStandard (Structured Query Language) and this CLI packaging are completely usable from application software. Database concepts are included in CQL-Card (tables, views, dictionaries, access privileges in select/insert/update/delete) and there are the same that in ODBC.