The jar-download action allows you to easily download Java jar files in GitHub Actions -- including dependencies! While Maven Central and other repositories do allow simple curl or wget downloads, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Minecraft 1.18 brings part 2 of the caves and cliffs update. The new update brings the caves and also changes how the world generates. And if you are excited to try out these new features with your ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. When distributing applications as JAR, EAR or WAR files, it’s a good practice, especially if ...

I know there's no practical purpose to this it's entirely theoretical. and I know a jar file uses the zip format. But how does one create a jar file without a manifest file. (I don't mean creating a ...