On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Torsten Curdt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> - Ant has a JarMarker class that extends ZipExtraField, is there an
>> equivalent ?
> 
> Could you elaborate?

On Solaris a file with the extension .jar whose first ZIP extra field
has the ID 0xCAFE (and is otherwise empty) is considered executable
and automatically handed of to Java as a "shell".

The jar tool in Sun's JDK adds this extra field and so does Ant's jar
task.

Stefan

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