Re: [Jython-users] "bad" jars

[D-Man <ds...@ri...>]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 09:01:00AM -0500, Nick Collier wrote:
| Java  provides an API for dealing  with jar files in the java.util.jar
| package. Perhaps using this API would allow you to accompilsh what you
| are trying to do. They are only part java 1.2 though.

I tried this API already.  It basically allows you to create a new
jar, then rename it to overwrite the old one.  This doesn't work in my
case because the jar file I want to overwrite is in use by the jvm.
The rename fails, at least on windows.  This is why I use a
RandomAccessFile instead.

-D