A third party library I'm utilizing provided the JavaDoc HTML and associated bin files in a zip file. How can I create a jar file from the JavaDoc HTML?
Thanks.
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Quick answer: You can take all the files in a ZIP and put it .jar extension
victor hugo
2009-06-03 15:35:06
A JAR file can be compressed, it may just lead to bad performance.
Michael Borgwardt
2009-06-03 15:35:53
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A JAR file is nothing but a ZIP file with an (optional) manifest file inside.
Basically, rename the file to .JAR and that's it.
Michael Borgwardt
2009-06-03 15:35:09
Well, I haven't looked at the spec, and of course there's a lot of functionality that depends on information in the manifest, but I've yet to see any Java tool outright rejecting a JAR file just because it lacks a manifest.
Michael Borgwardt
2009-06-03 17:41:48
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By zipping the files and renaming the compressed package .jar? (JAR files are basically just ZIP files.)
But why would you want to create a JAR out of the HTML files?
Jonik
2009-06-03 15:36:15
Yeah, I was wondering if it had to do with IDEs. With smart IDEs you wouldn't need to do such a thing, of course, as you can attach Javadocs directly from ZIPs/JARs/directories/URLs. :)
Jonik
2009-06-03 16:17:08
Your are correct. Is IDE related. I would much prefer to reference a URL.
javacavaj
2009-06-03 17:29:05
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Of course you could just unzip the zip file and add the lib folder you just decompressed to your classpath.
Hardwareguy
2009-06-03 19:57:41