I also can report good results using TrueZip to explore inside archives of various types (https://truezip.dev.java.net/) If you need pluggable support for the whole suite of common archives (.tar, .tar.gz, etc.) and/or need write access, this may be the way to go.
> Jeff Ramsdale wrote: > >> It's not a Restlet tool, but Apache Commons VFS might provide the >> low-level file access you need and you could wrap it with a Restlet: >> >> http://commons.apache.org/vfs/ >> >> -jeff >> >
