1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> 2<html> 3<head> 4<!-- 5Copyright (c) 1998, 2006, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 6DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 7 8This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 9under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as 10published by the Free Software Foundation. Oracle designates this 11particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided 12by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code. 13 14This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT 15ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or 16FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License 17version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that 18accompanied this code). 19 20You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version 212 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 22Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. 23 24Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA 25or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any 26questions. 27--> 28 29</head> 30<body bgcolor="white"> 31 32Provides classes for reading and writing the JAR (Java ARchive) file 33format, which is based on the standard ZIP file format with an 34optional manifest file. The manifest stores meta-information about the 35JAR file contents and is also used for signing JAR files. 36 37 38<h2>Package Specification</h2> 39 40The <code>java.util.jar</code> package is based on the following specifications: 41<ul> 42 <li><b>Info-ZIP file format</b> - The JAR format is based on the Info-ZIP 43 file format. See 44 <a href="/zip/package-summary.html#package_description">java.util.zip 45 package description.</a> <p> 46 In JAR files, all file names must be encoded in the UTF-8 encoding. 47<p> 48 <li><a href="{@docRoot}openjdk-redirect.html?v=8&path=/technotes/guides/jar/jar.html"> 49 Manifest and Signature Specification</a> - The manifest format specification. 50</ul> 51 52<!-- 53<h2>Related Documentation</h2> 54 55For overviews, tutorials, examples, guides, and tool documentation, please see: 56<ul> 57 <li><a href="">##### REFER TO NON-SPEC DOCUMENTATION HERE #####</a> 58</ul> 59--> 60 61@since 1.2 62</body> 63</html> 64