Posts

• Jul 28, 2011

  TrueZIP 7.3 Release Candidate 1

  I am pleased to announce TrueZIP 7.3 Release Candidate 1. This version provides a minor bug fix, some improvements and a new major feature for updating really large archive files: The GROW Output Option Preference. This feature is otherwise also known as archive-appending mode and is the equivalent of a multi-session disc (CD, DVD etc) for archive files. [more...]

• Jul 27, 2011

  How to compact a ZIP file

  In my previous sneak preview post, I showed how the upcoming TrueZIP 7.3 release can get used to grow a ZIP file by appending archive entries to its end rather than assembling a new ZIP file. While this improves performance, it grows the ZIP file over time and so you may want to compact the ZIP file once again. Here’s how to do this. [more...]

• Jul 26, 2011

  Appending entries to ZIP files with TrueZIP 7.3

  This post is a sneak preview of a new feature in TrueZIP 7.3: The ability to add ZIP entries to a ZIP file fast by appending them to its end rather than performing a full update. This feature is the equivalent to a multi-session disc (CD, DVD etc.) for ZIP files and can significantly improve the overall performance of a TrueZIP application. [more...]

• Jul 19, 2011

  TrueZIP 7.2.1 released

  This is a bug fix release. For anyone affected by the regression TRUEZIP-138, please accept my apologies. Following are the Release Notes compiled from the project’s issue tracker JIRA at http://java.net/jira/browse/TRUEZIP. [more...]

• Jul 8, 2011

  TrueZIP 7.2 released

  I am pleased to announce the availability of TrueZIP 7.2. TrueZIP 7.2 provides some exciting new features and improvements and some bug fixes. All users are recommended to upgrade from previous versions. [more...]

• Jun 30, 2011

  User website updates

  I have updated the TrueZIP User Website with some new content today. Most notably, the FAQ has some new entries and a new section for the new TrueZIP Path API. In addition, the home pages for the TrueZIP File*, TrueZIP Path and TrueZIP Kernel modules have been updated to reflect a comparison between the three. [more...]

• Jun 30, 2011

  TrueZIP 7.2 Release Candidate 2

  Only a week after TrueZIP 7.2 RC 1, this new release candidate was solely created to push the latest documentation updates to the project’s User Website and to fix one bug. [more...]

• Jun 23, 2011

  TrueZIP 7.2 Release Candidate 1

  I am pleased to announce the availability of TrueZIP 7.2 Release Candidate 1. TrueZIP 7.2 RC 1 provides some exciting new features, improvements and bug fixes. All users are recommended to upgrade from previous versions. [more...]

• Jun 5, 2011

  Hello JMX, hello JUL!

  When a TrueZIP application is accessing lots of archive files, maybe of different types, or when accessing recursive archive files like they are used for Java web applications or Java enterprise applications, it would be interesting to figure which archive files are currently mounted and which temporary files are used for this. This post features a general purpose file system driver for instrumenting other file system drivers with JMX and java.util.logging for monitoring and managing TrueZIP applications. [more...]

• Jun 5, 2011

  TrueZIP 7.1.4 released

  This release contains an improvement of the TrueZIP Driver TAR module which saves a temporary file when mounting a TAR file from an enclosing archive file. [more...]

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