A Java Archive, or JAR file, contains all of the various components that make up a self-contained, executable Java application, deployable Java applet or, most commonly, a Java library to which any ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. If you do not have Java installed, and the PATH variable is not set correctly, attempts to run a ...

My favorite use of Groovy continues to be for scripting in a Java development environment. In this blog post, I demonstrate a simple Groovy script for searching JARs recursively under a provided ...

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 ...

The clann application implements a command-line interface for parsing Java JAR files, analyzing Java class files, and producing a report that details which classes use which annotations. This repo ...

A simple command-line tool to list (or find duplicate) Java class names in JAR files. ch.k43.util.K 45795 2025-06-05T16:56:20 ../lib/ch.k43.util.jar ch.k43.util.KDB 19731 2025-06-05T16:56:20 ../lib/ch ...