What is the difference between .jar and .bz2?
- Extension
- .jar
- .bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Developer
- Compressed
- Developer
- Oracle
- Julian Seward
- Description
- 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.
- An archive file developed by Bzip2 compressor mainly found on Unix OS. Its popularly used to move Linux application packages because of its high-level compression algorithms i.e. the Burrows-Wheeler compression and Run-Length Encoding (RLE).
- MIME Type
- application/java-archive
- application/x-bzip2
- Sample
- sample.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .jar on Wikipedia
- .bz2 on Wikipedia