3rd party jar file/META-INF?

[palas das]

What is the use of 3rd party jar file?
What is the use of META-INF?

[sathya narayanana]

Hi,

It is just like meta data in your database.
Its purpose is to contain meta information about the files contained within
a {jar,war,war}-file.


sathya

[Rahul Bhattacharjee]

Originally posted by palas das:
What is the use of 3rd party jar file?
What is the use of META-INF?

If you are looking for some functionality which has already been implemented by some third party.In that case you do not need to rewrite that , straight away you can use it.

As sathya narayanana said ,you can have some meta information in that about the files it contains.
You can make a jar executable by putting the main class name in the menifest.mf file.
If you see some pluggable JAXP compatible parser , then you can see one more interesting use of this folder.

[Bear Bibeault]

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