JAR file?

[Erik]

Hello,

When visiting certain public sites, I get this small window telling me that
a JAR file is being downloaded with a rapidly progressing progress bar.
Any idea what it is?

Thanks,

Erik

 

[George Hester]

A jar file is a J(ava)AR(chive). It is like a zip file but can contain code so that it acts like an executable. When you go to a site that uses applets they sometimes package the classes in a jar file which downloads into your Temporary Internet Files and extracts so that the clasess can be used by your JVM; Java Virtual Machine.

There is nothing bad about them in themselves but as everything they can be abused.

I am not sure why you get the Progress Bar when these files download into your machine. But that's what they are.

 

[Jason Hall [MSFT]]

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From: "Erik" <[email protected]>
Subject: JAR file?
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 15:12:07 -0400

Hello,

When visiting certain public sites, I get this small window telling me that
a JAR file is being downloaded with a rapidly progressing progress bar.
Any idea what it is?

Thanks,

Erik

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A .jar file is a compressed file used with Java plugins. If the website you
are visiting uses Java plugins, then this is perfectly acceptable behaviour
: )


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[Dan DeStefano]

This is a java archive file.

Dan