> It would be too fine grained having a single component for: tar, zip, > rar, bzip2 and whatnot exists. > > Does Apache Commons supports a uniform API for these underlying > compression libraries?
Yes. Apache Commons Compress is some kind of layer around. It contains a factory and some interfaces which makes it very easy to create comrpessed/archived data. Please see also: http://commons.apache.org/compress/ I will take a look at the components documentation. Cheers Christian
