What is the difference between .jar and .xpi?
- Extension
- .jar
- .xpi
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Developer
- Data
- Developer
- Oracle
- W3C's Efficient Extensible Interchange Working Group
- 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.
- Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) is a binary XML format for exchange of data on a computer network. It was developed by the W3C's Efficient Extensible Interchange Working Group and is one of the most prominent efforts to encode XML documents in a binary data format, rather than plain text. Using EXI format reduces the verbosity of XML documents as well as the cost of parsing. Improvements in the performance of writing (generating) content depends on the speed of the medium being written to, the methods and quality of actual implementations.
- MIME Type
- application/java-archive
- application/x-xpinstall
- Wikipedia
- .jar on Wikipedia
- .xpi on Wikipedia