Question

is it possible to get a File or URI object for a file inside an archive with Java?
(zip or jar archive)

Thanks Hemeroc.

Answer 1

The jar: protocol is a way to build a URI to a resource in a JAR archive:

jar:http://www.example.com/bar/baz.jar!/path/to/file

See the API docs for JarURLConnection: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/net/JarURLConnection.html

Between the jar: and !/ can be any URL, including a file: URL.