1 ZipFileSystem is a file system provider that treats the contents of a zip or

     2 JAR file as a java.nio.file.FileSystem.

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     4 The factory methods defined by the java.nio.file.FileSystems class can be

     5 used to create a FileSystem, eg:

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     7    // use file type detection

     8    Path jarfile = Paths.get("foo.jar");

     9    FileSystem fs = FileSystems.newFileSystem(jarfile, null);

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    11 -or

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    13    // locate file system by the legacy JAR URL syntax

    14    Map<String,?> env = Collections.emptyMap();

    15    URI uri = URI.create("jar:file:/mydir/foo.jar");

    16    FileSystem fs = FileSystems.newFileSystem(uri, env);

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    18 Once a FileSystem is created then classes in the java.nio.file package

    19 can be used to access files in the zip/JAR file, eg:

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    21    Path mf = fs.getPath("/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF");

    22    InputStream in = mf.newInputStream();

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    24 See Demo.java for more interesting usages.

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