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-----Original Message----- From: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java Servlet API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Galbreath Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 9:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: This is just ridiculous.... Hasn't anybody done any recursive functions using the java.util.zip API??? I can get the last file in a directory to be included in the .zip file, but none of the others in the directory; it appears that the stream input overwrites whatever is there before so you end up with only one file compressed (and when you decompress it, it isn't true!). java.util.zip has been around since Java 1.1; I find it hard to believe no one has done this before. I cannot find anything on Sun's site, nor with Google, nor in the archives. Is there a bug in the ZipOutputStream.putNextEntry( new ZipEntry( file.toString())) method that prevents adding files to a .zip catalog? This seems outrageous! I'm using Bruce Eckel's design pattern but it doesn't work. Like so many other Java gurus who write books, it appears that the authors do not test their own code! Let's see, now, I'll write a bunch of code that looks like it SHOULD work, but I don't have the time to actually test it because I can make a whole lot of $$$ getting this book out and worry about the shit that doesn't work later.... Excuse me, please, for the rant, but I have spent thousands of $$$ on Java (and other technologies) manuals written by guys who don't test their code before publication and have editors who are simply numbnuts when it comes to technology. And this particular rant is not about bleeding-edge; java.util.zip has been around for 4 years! Cheers! Mark I am a deeply superficial person. -Andy Warhol This email was scanned with Norton AntiVirus 2002 before sending. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
