jaroslav@609: jaroslav@609: jaroslav@609: jaroslav@609: jaroslav@609: jaroslav@609: jaroslav@609: jaroslav@609: jaroslav@609: Provides classes for reading and writing the standard ZIP and GZIP jaroslav@609: file formats. Also includes classes for compressing and decompressing jaroslav@609: data using the DEFLATE compression algorithm, which is used by the jaroslav@609: ZIP and GZIP file formats. Additionally, there are utility classes jaroslav@609: for computing the CRC-32 and Adler-32 checksums of arbitrary jaroslav@609: input streams. jaroslav@609: jaroslav@609: jaroslav@609:

Package Specification

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jaroslav@609: Info-ZIP Application Note 970311 jaroslav@609: - a detailed description of the Info-ZIP format upon which jaroslav@609: the java.util.zip classes are based. jaroslav@609:
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An implementation may optionally support the ZIP64(tm) format extensions jaroslav@609: defined by the jaroslav@609: jaroslav@609: PKWARE ZIP File Format Specification. The ZIP64(tm) format extensions jaroslav@609: are used to overcome the size limitations of the original ZIP format. jaroslav@609:
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APPENDIX D of jaroslav@609: PKWARE ZIP File Format Specification - Language Encoding Flag (EFS) to jaroslav@609: encode ZIP entry filename and comment fields using UTF-8. jaroslav@609:
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jaroslav@609: ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification version 3.3 jaroslav@609: jaroslav@609: (pdf) jaroslav@609: (RFC 1950) jaroslav@609:
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jaroslav@609: DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3 jaroslav@609: jaroslav@609: (pdf) jaroslav@609: (RFC 1951) jaroslav@609:
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jaroslav@609: GZIP file format specification version 4.3 jaroslav@609: jaroslav@609: (pdf) jaroslav@609: (RFC 1952) jaroslav@609:
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CRC-32 checksum is described in RFC 1952 (above) jaroslav@609:
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Adler-32 checksum is described in RFC 1950 (above) jaroslav@609:

jaroslav@609: jaroslav@609: jaroslav@609: jaroslav@609: jaroslav@609: @since JDK1.1 jaroslav@609: jaroslav@609: jaroslav@609: jaroslav@609: