On 2009-03-30, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The abstract parent class for archive output streams has the method

> putArchiveEntry(ArchiveEntry)

> but all the implementations - apart from Ar - also define the specific method

> putNextEntry(xxxArchiveEntry) where xxx = Zip, Jar, etc.

> Do we really need the latter method?

Not really.

I assume they are there because the original codebases already
contained them.  In ZIP's case that's because the original Ant code
tried to mimic java.util.ZipOutputStream.

Stefan


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