Jar war ear browser

[pvamstel]

Is there a tool with which i can browse an ear file and recursive in this tool all the jars

[prabhakar]

They are just zip files with a different extension. You may be able to use winzip to do this.

-prabhakar

[pvamstel]

Yes i know.

I am using winzip, but the trouble with winzip is that it will only allow one deep unjarring. I want to be able to browse the jars in the ear.

I've looked on the internet but nothing does a recusrive unjar.

And another handy thing just for debbugging purposes would be to edit the deployment descriptors in the ear / war / jar file

grt Patrick

[joelvogt]

from what I remember winrar might have some luck trying to do these things.

[prabhakar]

Netbeans has nice support for this. You mount your ear/jar/war as a local filesystem and then browse it just like a regular file system.

-prabhakar

[pvamstel]

But also only 1 deep

Not recursive

[ehenne]

You can open WinZip from inside a WinZip archive with doubleclick if you have assigned WinZip as the standard tool for the file extensions. The simplest way is to assign the extensions .ear, .jar and .war to "WinZip" in the registry. Just set with regedit the value of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.ear to "WinZip". Look at the .zip entry for an example.