[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] JAR files (was Re: XML and Objects)
At 1:23 AM +0000 9/29/98, Chris Hubick wrote: >> The Java ARchive (JAR) format has manifests at the very beginning, >> so that the correct digital signatures can be computed during download. > > A JAR file is a Zip file. > Actually, no they aren't. If you read the JAR specification, the actual format of the archive is NOT specified. Only the existance of the manifest file & directory and it's content. It is only by existing usage that currently available .jar files happen to use the ZIP archiving format. Leonard ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leonard Rosenthol <mailto:leonardr@a...> Designated Free Electron (612) 766-4718 (Minn) Adobe Systems Incorporated (215) 233-5270 (Philly) PGP Fingerprint: 8CC9 8878 921E C627 0BC1 15BB FC19 64A9 0016 1397 xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
|
PURCHASE STYLUS STUDIO ONLINE TODAY!Purchasing Stylus Studio from our online shop is Easy, Secure and Value Priced! Download The World's Best XML IDE!Accelerate XML development with our award-winning XML IDE - Download a free trial today! Subscribe in XML format
|