Oracle has announced the release of Java 24, which adds several new features to the language, such as the availability of the Stream Gatherers API and Class-File API, and new features designed for ...

The second class, called ManifestFetcher, reads the MANIFEST.MF file that has been bundled with a particular jar file and searches for a class and its version, printing out the discovered information.

These class files contain a pre-Java 9 version of some application or library. It also provides access to Java 9-specific A.class and B.class files in the META-INF/versions/9 directory.