Java Language Features: With Modules, Streams, Threads, I/O, and Lambda Expressions

© Kishori Sharan 2018

Kishori SharanJava Language Featureshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3348-1_8

8. Working with Archive Files

Kishori Sharan¹ 

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Montgomery, Alabama, USA

 

In this chapter, you will learn:

• What archive files are

• What data compression is and how to compress and decompress data

• How to compute checksum for data using different algorithms

• How to create files in ZIP, GZIP, and JAR file formats and read data from them

• How to use the jar command-line tool to work with JAR files

All example programs in this chapter are a member of a jdojo.archives module, as declared in Listing 8-1.

// module-info.java

module jdojo.archives {

    exports com.jdojo.archives;

}

Listing 8-1.

The Declaration of a jdojo.archives Module

What Is an Archive File ?

An ...