Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for managing a
smart card product by providing a plurality of generic definitions, at
least a portion of which have a predefined relationship to others of the
generic definitions, so as to provide a hierarchy of generic definitions.
Generic definitions are selected from the plurality of generic definitions
and associated with an instance of a card product definition so as to
define characteristics of the smart card product associated with the
instance of the card product definition. The selected generic definitions
are populated with data associated with the smart card product so as to
provide a hierarchy of instances of the generic definitions which define
the characteristics of the smart card product. The smart card product is
managed utilizing the hierarchy of instances of the generic definitions so
as to provide the smart card product having the defined characteristics.
Systems for managing smart card products utilizing instances of
definitions from the hierarchy of definitions are also provided.
