RFR: JDK-8319122: Improve documentation of various Zip-file related APIs

[Volker Simonis]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 17:26:53 GMT, Yakov Shafranovich <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> The various Zip/Jar-file related Java APIs have some long-standing differences or peculiarities with respect to the ZIP-file specification or compared to other implementations which should be documented in the API-doc. This documents the following:
> - Cache of JAR files in JarURLConnection class
> - Cache of JAR/ZIP files in JarFile and ZipFile classes
> - Unexpected behavior when parsing ZIP files with duplicate entries in JarFile and ZipFile classes, as well as the zipfs provider
> - Directories and filenames with the same name considered to be the same in ZipFile class
> - Possible issues when local and central headers conflict in ZipInputStream class
> 
> Related JBS report:
> https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8319122

@robilad, Yakov Shafranovich is covered by Amazon's comany-wide OCA. Can you please approve his OCA status?

Thank you and best regards,
Volker

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16424#issuecomment-1785759972