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rvaede
Oct 19, 2011, 9:38:20 AM10/19/11
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I would like to clarify the meaning of JAR files.
I looked up online and it said a file that contains an image, sound
files for Java possible compressed.
The question I have why are there JAR files what are they used for?
regards
I looked up online and it said a file that contains an image, sound
files for Java possible compressed.
The question I have why are there JAR files what are they used for?
regards
98 Guy
Oct 21, 2011, 10:28:32 AM10/21/11
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rvaede wrote:
> I would like to clarify the meaning of JAR files.
You need to post this question to another newsgroup. This group gets
> I would like to clarify the meaning of JAR files.
practically no traffic these days.
I believe that jar files are always a compressed zip file (in other
words, if you rename it to .zip then you can unpack it using winzip).
A jar file contains java class files and associated meta-data and other
resources (text, images, etc). A java class file is java source code
compiled into a binary executable that is executed by the Java Runtime
Environment (JRE) or the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) installed on the
computer.
Developers can obfuscate JAR files so that a user of the JAR file
doesn't get much information regarding the code it contains, or to
reduce its size.
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