JarURLConnection

Applets often store their .class files in a JAR archive, which bundles all the classes in one package that still maintains the directory hierarchy needed to resolve fully qualified class names like com.macfaq.net.QueryString. Furthermore, since the entire archive is compressed and can be downloaded in a single HTTP connection, it requires much less time to download the .jar file than to download its contents one file at a time. Some programs store needed resources such as sounds, images, and even text files inside these JAR archives. Java provides several mechanisms for getting the resources out of the JAR archive, but the one that we’ll address here is the jar URL. The