In the context of the Open eCard Projectes, industrial as well as academic experts have decided to work together on providing an open source and cross platform implementation of the eCard-API-Framework BSI-TR-03112, through which arbitrary applications can utilize authentication and signatures with arbitrary chip cards.
A first project artifact is the currently in Version 1.0.0-pre4-20130109 running Open eCard App.
Visit us at http://openecard.org, to receive further information about the project.