How to see view the jar class

[kishan]

hi all......

I am new to java programming. I want to extract a jar file.
Please tell me the steps how to extract a jar file class ?
where will be the extracted class file stored in our system after extracting?
Is there any effect to the current running project by viewing the code?

[saifuddin.merchant]

Well a Jar file is really just a zip file with another extension. To view the contents of the Jar file, just copy the Jar file, rename the copied file to .zip instead of .jar and extract the contents using Winzip (or equivalent).

[kishan]

thank u....
but i followed steps by browsing net.
1) cd C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_05\bin
2)jar xf TicTacToe.jar TicTacToe.class images/cross.gif (for example)
will extract all of the folders and files comrpessed inside of the TicTacToe.jar file, and place them into the current folder.


in the above "current folder" means which folder.

[kishan]

I do as u told but it shows compiled code only.

[saifuddin.merchant]

Oh so you want to see the source code? You need a Java De-compiler for that. Just do a search for java decompiler on google and you should a lot of links to Java decompilers. Install any one and you should be able to decompile the Java class files to get the source code!

[saifuddin.merchant]

thank u....
but i followed steps by browsing net.
1) cd C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_05\bin
2)jar xf TicTacToe.jar TicTacToe.class images/cross.gif (for example)
will extract all of the folders and files comrpessed inside of the TicTacToe.jar file, and place them into the current folder.


in the above "current folder" means which folder.

This will do the same thing - as when you unzip. Its just a harder way to do it . To get the source you will need a decompiler. Look at my post above!!!!