On Wed, 9 Jun 2021 13:37:02 GMT, Jorn Vernee <jver...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> src/jdk.jartool/share/classes/sun/tools/jar/resources/jar.properties line 
>> 241:
>> 
>>> 239: \      --validate             Validate a jar. This process will 
>>> validate that the API\n\
>>> 240: \                             exported by a multi-release jar is 
>>> consistent across all\n\
>>> 241: \                             different release versions.
>> 
>> Thanks for the update. I see that that "jar archive" is used in some of the 
>> existing options so maybe tweak it to:
>> 
>> Validate the contents of the jar archive.
>> This option will validate that the API exported by ...
>
> Done.
> 
> FWIW, I also thought about using "jar file", but the jar tool can also take 
> input from stdin, so that didn't seem appropriate.

Yeah, there are inconsistencies. In other contexts we say "JAR file". In the 
usage output it has historically used "jar archive".

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3971

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