Re: update jar file with java code
Eric Sosman wrote:
Does that matter for the O.P.'s purposes? Yes, he said
he wanted to "update an existing big jar" -- but in truth,
that doesn't seem to be what he needs at all! He's writing
a servlet to send a jar to a client, and he apparently wants
to "fingerprint" each jar with a client-specific entry. So
what he really needs, it seems to me, is a read-only jar on
the server that he can copy entry by entry from (probably) a
ZipInputStream to a ZipOutputStream. Along the way he can
synthesize and write his one extra "fingerprint" entry to the
ZipOutputStream. The jar that's sent to the client never gets
Hmm, if I remember the zip file formant, there's an index and file count
at the beginning of the zip file, so one has to complete all writes to
the archive before it's valid. But what you suggest might be possible,
with a little clever work from the OP.
But in general, the absence of a generic "add this to an existing
archive" seems defective to me. Maybe there's a good reason for it though.
I wonder if he could use two jar files. One big one with most of the
methods, which never gets changed, and one smaller one with just the
ticket and validation method. This might be easier on the server's CPU
and disk IO bandwidth.
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