Right from day one, the standard format for packaging Java programs was the Java ARchive, or JAR file for short. There's nothing particularly interesting about a JAR file. At its heart, it's simply a ...

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 ...

An embedded Tomcat server consists of a single Java web application along with a full Tomcat server distribution, packaged together and compressed into a single JAR, WAR or ZIP file. Embedded Tomcat ...

I've got a problem that I'm stuck on. How do I programmatically get the executing jar file's absolute path?<BR><BR>I'm trying to look for a folder that is relative to the jar file's directory but I'm ...

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 ...