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HENDRIK R6-Feb-03 1:10
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Generalabout zip file and jar file, urgent Pin
includeh106-Feb-03 0:26
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Ambit6-Feb-03 1:43
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Mike Nordell6-Feb-03 4:11
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includeh106-Feb-03 5:23
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Mike Nordell7-Feb-03 3:55
Mike Nordell7-Feb-03 3:55 
includeh10 wrote:
what does "stole" mean here?

The JAR archiver was on the field before Java even became hype (IIRC). A jar archive therefore had a well-defined meaning: an archive created by the JAR archiver.

Then Sun came along with Java. First they used the .zip extension (as one would expect, since Java class-collection archives are just zip-files).

Later Sun decided this wasn't any good. They wanted something that differentiated a Java .zip archive from any other .zip archive. What could be more obvious than taking a zip-file and changing the extension to .jar (Java ARchive)? Well, I can come to think of a gazillion better things to do - especially since they by this move overloaded even the meaning of "jar archive". This was a Bad Thing(tm).

Nowadays "a jar archive" can be either a JAR archiver archive (with .j extension) or a collection of Java classes in a zip-file (renamed to the .jar extension), and without explicit context or qualification there is no way to know which one people are talking about (hence my previous answer to your question).

So the meaning of "stole" in this context was to display that Sun hijacked an already existing TLA used in the same field (archives and archivers).
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