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 ...

JAR files are like EXE files, except that they need a Java framework to run. Imagine them as EXE files on Windows, which you can double-click to launch the program. When you run an EXE file, it uses ...

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 ...