What is the difference between .gzip and .jar?
- Extension
 - .gzip
 - .jar
 
- Format
 - Binary
 - Binary
 
- Category
 - Compressed
 - Developer
 
- Developer
 - GNU
 - Oracle
 
- Description
 - A compressed file format associated with GNU Zip (Gzip) that uses the DEFLATE compression algorithm, a combination of both the Huffman coding and the Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) codec.
 - A JAR file is a Java archive (JAR) file used by the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), a framework used for executing Java programs. JAR files may serve as program libraries or as standalone programs that run if the JRE is installed on the computer or mobile device.
 
- MIME Type
 - application/x-gzip
 - application/java-archive
 
- Wikipedia
 - .gzip on Wikipedia
 - .jar on Wikipedia