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Subject: Re: two JARs
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On 2/21/2013 3:45 PM, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
> On 02/21/2013 07:34 PM, markspace wrote:
>> On 2/21/2013 3:12 PM, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Why unzip either?
>>
>>
>> Well, for the "sources" one, compilers don't deal with source files
>> inside a Zip/Jar file.
>>
> No, but that's not typically what they are for - they are, in my
> experience, used to inspect source in an IDE, where you attach them as
> JARs. Providing the source JARs for a library is better for 3rd party
> code inspection than decompiling, which is imperfect.


Oh I see what you're saying.  I'm used to Zip files for source 
"archives," but since the formats are basically identical I can see Java 
programmers using the Jar format for the same thing.