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Foil 16 What is JAR?

From Javabeans Basic Information Track Computational Science Course CPS616 -- Spring Semester 1999. by Geoffrey Fox, Nancy McCracken, Wojtek Furmanski
Suns tutorial on JAR files
1 JAR stands for Java ARchive.
2 It's a file format based on the popular ZIP file format and is used for aggregating many files into one. It is the Java version of the UNIX tar and zip functions.
3 Jar is
  • the only archive format that is cross-platform
  • the only format that handles audio and image files as well as class files
  • backward-compatible with existing applet code
  • an open standard, fully extendable, and written in java
  • the preferred way to bundle the pieces of a java applet
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