Hi, Java 1.5 comes with support for a new archive format Pack200[1] which basically works by using a special compression algorithm that is very effective on Java class files. The way to create such an archive is to create a plain old jar first and then turn ot into a Pack200 archive - "depack200"ing again yields a jar archive.
Sine Java 1.5 comes with a straight forward utility class[2], creating <pack200> and <unpack200> tasks would be quite simple - and first enhancement request are predicted to pop up soon 8-) Do we want to make them core tasks or do we want to farm them out into an antlib of their own? Stefan Footnotes: [1] http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=200 [2] http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/javax/pack/Pack200.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
