Java card and Magnetic Strip card

Dear sir
There is a difference between java card programming and magnetic strip card programming ?
If i want to make a loyalty card which one i should prefer and why ?
I read about magnetic strip cards theoretically and their disadvantages as well but programmatically which one is better ?

Muhammad Umer wrote:
Sir i actually want to know that if that which one is easy in programming perspective. And as i am learning java card programming so can i program a magnetic strip card with the same programming skills ?Then you obviously don't know or don't understand what JDL put in their original response. You don not program a magstripe card. You write code on the host side that communicates with a magstripe encoder to encode some static data on the card, such as the loyalty ID of the card holder.
The host application may have some similarities but that is it. As has been previously stated, a magstripe card does not have a processor so there is no "programming" a magstripe card as such.
You need to start reading the responses you get a little more carefully before simply disregarding them and asking the same question again.
Cheers,
Shane

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