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 ...

I'm trying to make a jar file from eclipse (no problem), but the problem is the following: my program accesses some classes that are bundled in an additional jar file, so I've imported this additional ...

JEP 238: Multi-Release JAR Files extends the JAR file format to allow multiple, Java-release-specific versions of class/resource files to coexist in the same archive. This upgrade makes it easier for ...

For many years, Phil Katz’s archive creation, zip, has been one of the most popular file archiving formats. Sun has adopted the zip format as the basis for the Java Archive (JAR). Sun has extended the ...

You can develop .Net software in Java with IKVM tools by creating jar files with the ikvmstub program, providing Java programming interface calls into .Net libraries, compiling your Java program ...