Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Follow these steps to open a JAR file and extract the contents to the local filesystem: Change ...

File compression is a great way to reduce the overall sizes of files or a batch of files. This helps save space on storage devices and makes transferring files over the Internet easier and faster ...

A Java Archive, or JAR file, contains all of the various components that make up a self-contained, executable Java application, deployable Java applet or, most commonly, a Java library to which any ...

Java archive files (JARs) let you import pre-coded libraries into your Android applications. JARs save time, because you can use the Java functions without writing your own code for certain processes.

I know there's no practical purpose to this it's entirely theoretical. and I know a jar file uses the zip format. But how does one create a jar file without a manifest file. (I don't mean creating a ...

If you’ve used the Java Native Interface (JNI) to make a platform-specific native library accessible to your Java programs, you know how tedious it can be. Jeff Friesen continues his series on ...