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Subject:The action of creating a JAR file? From:"Hart, Geoff" <Geoff-H -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:24:31 -0400
Jane Carnall wonders: <<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.">>
Rather than imported, I'd say "added to" a JAR file; I see no need to coin a
new word if none already exists. On the other hand, you could certainly say
"jarred" if that's appropriate jargon for the audience, something I can't
comment upon. I life in a largely decaff world these days, so my Java
experience is sadly limited.
<<The corresponding verb for a JAR file should be "jarred", yet that sounds
wrong.>>
It jars the ear, does it? <gdr> Yet it nonetheless seems well formed, and
follows the broadly accepted examples of "zipped" in the Windows world and
"stuffed" in the Mac world. And I imagine UNIX folk periodically TAR and
feather their files, no matter how fowl that may sound.
<<Anyone got a good verb I could borrow? I have some nice fresh adverbs,
only one careful driver, good resale value... <g>
If the driver is Mac-compatible, I'll loan you "to be"; whether 'tis a
nobler verb with which to suffer the slings and arrows of outraged editors,
I leave to posterity to determine.
--Geoff Hart, FERIC, Pointe-Claire, Quebec
geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
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