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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org