Creating and Viewing a JAR
The JARJARJ tool allows you to create, list, and extract files from JAR archives. It deliberately resembles the Unix tar tool, both in function and in usage. Like other tools in the SDK, the JAR tool is implemented as a Java application, making it portable to any platform supporting Java.
The jar command is used from the command line exclusively. There are many options that you provide to the jar command, depending on what you are trying to do. You can type just jar on the command line to see the options. For a detailed look at the options, see Appendix B, "SDK Tools."
To create a new JAR file, you can use the c option with the jar command. Options can be appended together. When creating a new JAR file, most often you ...
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