What is a jar?

Adam Crockett 🌀 - Jun 10 '21 - - Dev Community

So after many years of using java -jar, It has finally clicked that jar is also a command in terminal.

If we run man jar we see that jar files and the jar utility is a form of archive like .zip and so is .war, hu yeah.

Why does jar exist? Im not sure, Java is a strange ecosystem

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