Creating a Zip Archive

// writing a zip file
											ZipOutputStream out =
											new ZipOutputStream(
											new FileoutputStream(zipFileName));
											FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(fileToZip1);
											out.putNextEntry(new ZipEntry(fileToZip1));
											int len;
											byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
											while ((len = in.read(buf)) > 0) {
											out.write(buf,0,len);
											}
											out.closeEntry();
											in.close();
											out.close();

In the previous phrase, we showed how you can read from a Zip file. In this phrase, we create a Zip file. To do this, we first construct a ZipOutputStream by passing to its constructor a FileOutputStream object pointing to the file we want to create as our Zip file. We then create a FileInputStream for a file that we want to add to our Zip file. We use the putNextEntry() method of the

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