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How Do You Extract A JAR File?

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How Do You Extract A JAR File?

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• Verify that a Java SDK installed (Java Platform Standard Edition Development Kit). A version is included with Oracle’s JDeveloper. It may be downloaded from Sun directly, and a link is included in the Sources and Citations section below. • Locate the jar.exe file inside of this Java SDK folder. By default, it is inside of the “bin” folder of the SDK. A typical default location on Windows is “C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.x.x_xx\bin”, with x.x_xx reflecting the JDK version. Newer versions may have the default location set to “C:\Sun\SDK\jdk\bin”. • Open a command window or terminal, depending upon your operating system, and go to this bin folder. Example for Windows: type cd C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_05\bin to reach the bin folder. Execute the jar.exe utility. Use both the “x” and “f” parameters to indicate that you’re extracting files from the archive. Example: jar xf MyDownloadedFile.jar will extract all of the folders and files comrpessed inside of the MyDownloadedFile.jar file,