The executable runs the extractor program to extract the archived files into a user-specified output directory. You can convert a base zip or jar file into an executable jar file on any Java platform.

To open a JAR file you can use any standard ZIP utility. Of course, Java being Java, we can’t just call a ZIP file a ZIP file. We must call it something cute. Thus, in Java, we create JavaBeans. And ...

Run the jar tool without arguments to see its usage. You pass it the -M option to create a JAR without a manifest. You won't be able to run the JAR file with java -jar, but you will still be able ...

Packaging Java programs as JAR files There's nothing particularly interesting about a JAR file. At its heart, it's simply a mechanism to compress multiple files. A JAR file uses exactly the same ...