Nagesh wrote on 25.02.2006 11:31:

The standard libraries do supply gzip support:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/zip/GZIPInputStream.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/zip/GZIPOutputStream.html

at least that's what the docs say: "for reading compressed data in the GZIP format"

The Jakarta project seems to be working on tar support:

http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/compress/

As this is obviously taken from the Ant sources, you might want to check them as
well.

A quick search in google revealed this as well:
http://www.trustice.com/java/tar/

Thomas

googgled 'jtar' (and you should try do the same sometimes...)
       http://www.angelfire.com/on/vkjava/

Java supports GZIP, but the GZIPInputStream cannot read multi-member gzip,
that is, a concatenation of gzips, as per the rfc 1952 (see 2.2)
       http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4691425
       http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1952.html (see 2.2)

Beware that gzipping in java is 3x slower than the linux gzip. I resort to
runtime exec('gzip -c') while passing data to stdin and reading it back
from stdout of the spawn process...! (you can wrap it all in a simple
outputstream implementation for a nice reusability).

GZIP yes. tar no.  See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/gzip.html

The following link was pretty good. Thank you very much Thomas.
http://www.trustice.com/java/tar/

nagesh