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Re: The action of creating a JAR file

Subject: Re: The action of creating a JAR file
From: Victoria Camgros <vcamgros -at- persistence -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 10:21:12 -0700

At 06:07 PM 7/16/01 +0100, Jane Carnall wrote:

Does anyone know of a good verb for the process of taking a set of files and
creating a new JAR file that consists of nothing but those files? What I
have is:

"The Java files comprising your COFFEE service must be compiled into class
files, and should be imported into a JAR file."

If it was a WinZip file, I'd say "zipped": "The Java files comprising your
COFFEE service must be compiled into class files. The class files should be
zipped into a WinZIP file."

The corresponding verb for a JAR file should be "jarred", yet that sounds
wrong. (I could continue the metaphor and say "poured", of course, but I'm
reluctant.)

Anyone got a good verb I could borrow? I have some nice fresh adverbs, only
one careful driver, good resale value... <g>

Informally, folks seem to use jar/jarred/unjar/unjarred. It does jar the ear (sorry, a little weak Java humor), but everyone in the Java programming community seems to understand it.

Since it's a Java ARchive file, you could say build or archive. I think I would stick with jar.


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