Dual zipfs

[Omair Majid]

* Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com> [2016-05-31 15:33]:
> com.sun.nio.zipfs is a demonstration of using the NIO 2 API and was
> adding in OpenJDK 7. I'm surprised it's actually installed in the main
> tree and not the demo tree, actually. It's in
> jdk/src/share/demo/nio/zipfs/src/com/sun/nio/zipfs in the OpenJDK
> source tree.

From
https://blogs.oracle.com/xuemingshen/entry/the_zip_filesystem_provider_in1: 

> The more test cases and sample code we wrote the more we are convinced
> that it might be a good idea to simply deploy this ZIP file system
> provider into the system extensions directory, so the provider can be
> used directly (without playing with the -classpath to add the zipfs.jar
> into your classpath) to access a ZIP/Jar file via the NIO2 file system
> APIs, as an alternative to the existing java.util.zip/jar.ZipFile class.
> So since JDK7/b123, the zipfs.jar has been deployed into the lib/ext.
> You now can use the ZIP filesystem "out of the box" and access a ZIP/Jar
> file just like access a "normal" file system.

Thanks,
Omair

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