Run the jar tool without arguments to see its usage. You pass it the -M option to create a JAR without a manifest. You won't be able to run the JAR file with java -jar, but you will still be able ...

Java Archive apps. Each installation of the Java Development Kit (JDK) includes a JAR utility (named jar.sh on Unix and jar.exe on Windows) that provides a variety of helpful functions for working ...

With the keystore created and the server.cer file on the filesystem, we can then use the jarsigner tool to digitally sign the JAR file. In this case, the JAR file to digitally sign is named ...

In this post, I look at use of the jar command to create, view, and manipulate Java archive files. JAR files will be used primarily in this post, but the commands I demonstrate on .jar files work ...

Although JDiff comes with a pre-built JAR, I have been building and using it locally with Java 7 and thought it provided as good as any JAR upon which to try viewing the manifest file.