TheServerSide

How to deploy a JAR file to Tomcat by example

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The question of how to deploy a JAR file to Tomcat drives a surprising amount of traffic to ...
Houston Chronicle

How to Extract a JAR File

While running your business, you may have to deal with JAR files, which are archives that compress several files into one. Though JARS are based on the ZIP compression method, they are mainly used to ...
Ars Technica

[Java] Getting the absolute path of the running jar file?

I've got a problem that I'm stuck on. How do I programmatically get the executing jar file's absolute path?<BR><BR>I'm trying to look for a folder that is relative to the jar file's directory but I'm ...
InfoWorld

Java Tip 120: Execute self-extracting JARs

For many years, Phil Katz’s archive creation, zip, has been one of the most popular file archiving formats. Sun has adopted the zip format as the basis for the Java Archive (JAR). Sun has extended the ...
InfoWorld

Java 9’s other new enhancements, Part 4: Multi-release JAR files

JEP 238: Multi-Release JAR Files extends the JAR file format to allow multiple, Java-release-specific versions of class/resource files to coexist in the same archive. This upgrade makes it easier for ...