Zipping a Folder in java

Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:35 am

In the following example , show to you how to zip a folder in java ;
Here is the code of the program :

Code:: import java.io.*; import java.util.zip.*; public class ZipFolderExample { public static void main(String a[]) { try { File myfolder=new File("out"); File outFolder=new File("Out.zip"); ZipOutputStream out = new ZipOutputStream(new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(outFolder))); BufferedInputStream in = null; byte[] data = new byte[1000]; String files[] = myfolder.list(); for (int i=0; i<files.length; i++) { in = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream (myfolder.getPath() + "/" + files[i]), 1000); out.putNextEntry(new ZipEntry(files[i])); int count; while((count = in.read(data,0,1000)) != -1) { out.write(data, 0, count); } out.closeEntry(); } out.flush(); out.close(); } catch(Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } }