What is the difference between .jar and .gzip?
- Extension
- .jar
- .gzip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Developer
- Compressed
- Developer
- Oracle
- GNU
- 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.
- 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.
- MIME Type
- application/java-archive
- application/x-gzip
- Wikipedia
- .jar on Wikipedia
- .gzip on Wikipedia