Re: why do XPI's have jars

Daniel Veditz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.xpinstall
Organization Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
JohnSmith wrote:

> 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?

what "XPI JARS"?

XPInstall installs .xpi files (structurally zip archives, the extension
tells us to expect an install script).

Mozilla chrome uses a .jar extension. I don't know why but it has nothing to
do with XPInstall.

-Dan Veditz
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