Right from day one, the standard format for packaging Java programs was the Java ARchive, or JAR file for short. There's nothing particularly interesting about a JAR file. At its heart, it's simply a ...

In this document I am going to look at a case-study involving two projects - one which produces a package intended to be used as a library, and a second project which depends on that library, and ...

One of the new features of NetBeans 7.4 that made the “NetBeans 74 NewAndNoteworthy” page is “Native Packaging,” which is described on that page as “JavaSE projects now support creation of native ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Through an effort afoot in the Java Community Process (JCP), Sun Microsystems is seeking to upgrade the aging procedure for the packaging of Java applications as JAR (Java Archive) ...