Dec 16, 2016 Jar files in Java A JAR (Java Archive) is a package file format typically used to aggregate many Java class files and associated metadata and resources (text, images, etc.) into one file to distribute application software or libraries on the Java platform. Oct 23, 2015 My Java Games with Source Code! - Tetris, Mineweeper, Tron etc! (Read 277460 times) 0 Members and 2 Guests are viewing this topic.
A JAR (Java Archive) is a package file format typically used to aggregate many Java class files and associated metadata and resources (text, images, etc.) into one file to distribute application software or libraries on the Java platform.
In simple words, a JAR file is a file that contains compressed version of .class files, audio files, image files or directories. We can imagine a .jar files as a zipped file(.zip) that is created by using WinZip software. Even , WinZip software can be used to used to extract the contents of a .jar . So you can use them for tasks such as lossless data compression, archiving, decompression, and archive unpacking. Java Games Jar Files
Let us see how to create a .jar file and related commands which help us to work with .jar files
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