What is JAR file?

What is JAR file?

JAR file stands for Java ARchive, a compressed file like zip, rar, lha files. Using the jar command, a JAR file is commonly used for packaging Java classes (.class).

JAR is an acronym for Java Archive. It is nothing but a compressed form of a group of class files. For Example if you have your packages and class files in C:javaprgs Then from the windows command prompt one can jar the files in javaprgs using the following command C:javaprgs> jar ?cvfM jar-file-name.jar *.* We also hav WAR n EAR files.  WAR is acronynm for Web Archive EAR is acronynm for Enterprise Archive.

Blog Author: Vijay Kumar

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