How to download jar files

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Subscribe Subscribed Unsubscribe Download the file using httpclient library in a specific folder. Here is an example. Copy the downloaded file replacing the earlier file. The JAR file will be associated with the 7zip or Winzip apps.

Setup installers for Windows applications are usually wrapped in an EXE file. However, some applications are dedicated to modifying other types, and file formats are abundant, even for a single type of file. The one in question here is JAR, which can easily get associated with another type of program, thus making it impossible for users to launch JAR applications by just double-clicking these files.

Luckily, Jarfix comes to save the day. JAR files are nothing more than special executable files created by Java , which come bundled with a variety of classes and functions to make the dedicated program work. Also, Java Runtime Environment must be installed on the computer in order to run Java apps.

The problem is that some archiving utilities assume that you use JAR files to compress files into archives and, after installing these archiving utilities, they get automatically associated with JAR files, thus overwriting Java. In such cases, it becomes difficult for users to open JAR files with Java, unless they know how to fiddle with the Windows settings to manually change the filetype association.