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 ...

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) ...

I wrote a Java application that I'd like to run on any machine that has the appropriate Java Runtime Environment installed. I'm used to running apps via the SDK binaries, i.e. "java [application]" ...