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Jim
"Preston L. Bannister" wrote:
>
> >From Chris Pratt
> > You don't have to un-jar the file, just open it with a JarReader or
> > ZipReader and check for the appropriate Entry. It's not that complicated
> > and anything we can do to keep new users from getting bogged down in the
> > details is good for the technology and good for the mailing list. I, as
> > Paul was saying, would recommend that the specification require a certain
> > file format (zip) and internal directory structure (WEB-INF), and only
> > suggest the naming convention.
>
> Guess I should mention what probably isn't at all obvious :).
>
> On Win32 (NT/95/98) you can write a shell extension handler to add context
> menu entries and property sheets. This only need be done once (for the
> entire planet :). When you right click on *.jar your context menu will say
> "Open JAR", "Run Java Application", "Approve EJB" (or whatever). When you
> pick "Properties" from the context menu the handler could add property
> sheets (EJB attributes or whatever) as appropriate.
>
> So a more specific file extension than *.jar is really *not* needed for
> Windows.
>
> Another way to look at this is a *.war or *.ejb is really a subclass of a
> *.jar file. To be more exact they are all subclasses of *.zip :). By
> changing the extension you are hiding that inheritance. Sometimes that's a
> good thing :), but not in this case.
>
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