Information processing apparatus and method and program for mediating applications

An information processing apparatus is capable of being connected to an IC card via a reader/writer. The information processing apparatus includes a middleware and a device driver provided so as to correspond to the reader/writer. The middleware provides a plurality of applications for the IC card with basic functions shared by the applications. The device driver sequentially processes a plurality of commands received from the plurality of applications via the middleware in the order in which the commands are received so as to control the corresponding reader/writer. In this way, the applications concurrently access the reader/writer.