The java code provides various utility functions pertaining to Zipping and Compressing .
import java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream; import java.util.zip.ZipEntry; import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.FileNotFoundException; import java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; public class ZipFileUtil { public ZipOutputStream createZipFile(String outFile,String[] files) { String zipFileName = outFile; byte[] buf = new byte[1024]; try { ZipOutputStream out = new ZipOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(zipFileName)); System.out.println("Archive: " + zipFileName); // Compress the files for (int i=1; i<files.length; i++) { FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(files[i]); out.putNextEntry(new ZipEntry(files[i])); // Transfer bytes from the file to the ZIP file int len; while((len = in.read(buf)) > 0) { out.write(buf, 0, len); } // Complete the entry out.closeEntry(); in.close(); } // Complete the ZIP file out.close(); //Return Zip file return out; } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); System.exit(1); } } public void unzipFiles(String zipFileName) { try { ZipFile zf = new ZipFile(zipFileName); System.out.println("Archive: " + zipFileName); // Enumerate each entry for (Enumeration entries = zf.entries(); entries.hasMoreElements();) { // Get the entry and its name ZipEntry zipEntry = (ZipEntry)entries.nextElement(); String zipEntryName = zipEntry.getName(); int lastDirSep; if ( (lastDirSep = zipEntryName.lastIndexOf('/'))>0) { String dirName = zipEntryName.substring(0, lastDirSep); (new File(dirName)).mkdirs(); } if (!zipEntryName.endsWith("/")) { OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(zipEntryName); InputStream in = zf.getInputStream(zipEntry); byte[] buf = new byte[1024]; int len; while((len = in.read(buf)) > 0) { out.write(buf, 0, len); } // Close streams out.close(); in.close(); } } } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); System.exit(1); } } public void listFiles(String zipFileName) { try { System.out.println("Opening zip file " + zipFileName); ZipFile zf = new ZipFile(zipFileName); int counter = 0; // Enumerate each entry for (Enumeration entries = zf.entries(); entries.hasMoreElements();) { counter++; // Get the entry name String zipEntryName = ((ZipEntry)entries.nextElement()).getName(); } } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); System.exit(1); } } public GZIPOutputStream compressFile(String inFileName) { try { System.out.println("Creating the GZIP output stream."); String outFileName = inFileName + ".gz"; GZIPOutputStream out = null; try { out = new GZIPOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(outFileName)); } catch(FileNotFoundException e) { System.err.println("Could not create file: " + outFileName); System.exit(1); } FileInputStream in = null; try { in = new FileInputStream(inFileName); } catch (FileNotFoundException e) { System.err.println("File not found. " + inFileName); System.exit(1); } //Transfering bytes from input file to GZIP Format byte[] buf = new byte[1024]; int len; while((len = in.read(buf)) > 0) { out.write(buf, 0, len); } in.close(); System.out.println("Completing the GZIP file"); out.finish(); out.close(); return out; } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); System.exit(1); } } public FileOutputStream uncompressFile(String inFileName) { try { if (!getExtension(inFileName).equalsIgnoreCase("gz")) { System.err.println("File name must have extension of ".gz""); System.exit(1); } GZIPInputStream in = null; try { in = new GZIPInputStream(new FileInputStream(inFileName)); } catch(FileNotFoundException e) { System.err.println("File not found. " + inFileName); System.exit(1); } System.out.println("Open the output file."); String outFileName = getFileName(inFileName); FileOutputStream out = null; try { out = new FileOutputStream(outFileName); } catch (FileNotFoundException e) { System.err.println("Could not write to file. " + outFileName); System.exit(1); } //Transfering bytes from compressed file to the output file byte[] buf = new byte[1024]; int len; while((len = in.read(buf)) > 0) { out.write(buf, 0, len); } System.out.println("Closing the file and stream"); in.close(); out.close(); return out; } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); System.exit(1); } }