On 04/03/2010, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  while investigating an Ant issue I recently had a look at how Harmony
>  implements JarInputStream and friends.
>
>  If we wanted to enable the usual JarEntry fields on top of
>  ZipArchiveInputStream we'd be forced to re-implement the whole
>  verification process for signed jars that the class library can already
>  do for us (in some hidden code we cannot re-use from the outside).
>
>  The more I think about this, the more I believe we should make
>  JarArchiveInputStream use the java.util.jar package rather than extend
>  ZipArchiveInputStream - this would also mean we'd break the API of 1.0,
>  though.

Seems good to me.
Presumably JarArchiveOutputStream should also be changed?

>  Stefan
>
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