I've got a problem that I'm stuck on. How do I programmatically get the executing jar file's absolute path?I'm trying to look for a folder that is relative to the jar file's directory but I'm ...

Run the jar tool without arguments to see its usage. You pass it the -M option to create a JAR without a manifest. You won't be able to run the JAR file with java -jar, but you will still be able ...

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The Java Native Interface offers a complex and potentially error-prone approach to accessing native code from your Java programs. This month Jeff Friesen introduces JNA: an open source Java ...

This installment of <i>Open source Java projects</i> showcases Akka, a JVM-based toolkit and runtime that implements the actor model as message-passing paradigm. Start with a simple example, then ...

Right from day one, the standard format for packaging Java programs was the Java ARchive, or JAR file for short. There was a tendency toward silliness in the naming of technical components in the ...