http://sourceforge.net/projects/java-unrar
I use it!
???
Got a bullshit response from sourceforge:
I can only think the unrar license is incompatible with them (can’t recreate rar with this source).
The peon didn’t think it required a clearer justification.
Does anyone know if the project found another home?
Found one, but it’s a fork for some megalomaniac apache project, that is probably never going to touch the code. The original author is nowhere to be seen
Just curious why are you using rar ? You have so many better supported and superior choices like LZMA/7z and/or pack200.
It’s for my users, eg, the books are compressed with rar already. I have a abstraction over rar and zip of course.
Can’t you just run the unrar.exe process from Java, with the right parameters? That’s what I do…
:shrug:
I use more than the standard command line tool gives i think. Listing contents, taking the size, crc and other properties.
I like to keep it absolutely portable. I have failed in parts (“fake fullscreen” in ubuntu needs to drop to console XRender tools to not look like ass etc). I was satisfied that there was a java unrar implementation, especially now that the new java 7 filesystem work is finished, finally virtual filesystems can be in the platform.
There are some seriously neglected projects (not to mention bugs) in the java platform because noone uses them. Freetts for one.