why do XPI's have jars

JohnSmith <[email protected]> Sun, 18 Jul 2004 09:59:43 GMT

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As I understand it, JARs are java archives.  However, I have yet to see 
any XPI JARS have any java in them.  Shouldn't they really be zips?

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