Moving modules around so the runtime is under one master pom and can be built without building other modules that are in the repository
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32 Provides classes for reading and writing the standard ZIP and GZIP
33 file formats. Also includes classes for compressing and decompressing
34 data using the DEFLATE compression algorithm, which is used by the
35 ZIP and GZIP file formats. Additionally, there are utility classes
36 for computing the CRC-32 and Adler-32 checksums of arbitrary
40 <h2>Package Specification</h2>
44 <li><a href="ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/doc/appnote-970311-iz.zip">
45 Info-ZIP Application Note 970311
46 </a> - a detailed description of the Info-ZIP format upon which
47 the <code>java.util.zip</code> classes are based.
50 <li>An implementation may optionally support the ZIP64(tm) format extensions
52 <a href="http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT">
53 PKWARE ZIP File Format Specification</a>. The ZIP64(tm) format extensions
54 are used to overcome the size limitations of the original ZIP format.
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57 <li>APPENDIX D of <a href="http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT">
58 PKWARE ZIP File Format Specification</a> - Language Encoding Flag (EFS) to
59 encode ZIP entry filename and comment fields using UTF-8.
61 <li><a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1950.txt">
62 ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification version 3.3</a>
64 <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1950.txt.pdf">(pdf)</a>
67 <li><a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1951.txt">
68 DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3</a>
70 <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1951.txt.pdf">(pdf)</a>
73 <li><a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1952.txt">
74 GZIP file format specification version 4.3</a>
76 <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1952.txt.pdf">(pdf)</a>
79 <li>CRC-32 checksum is described in RFC 1952 (above)
81 <li>Adler-32 checksum is described in RFC 1950 (above)
86 <h2>Related Documentation</h2>
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