Apache Commons Compress software defines an API for working with compression and archive formats. These include: bzip2, gzip, pack200, lzma, xz, Snappy, traditional Unix Compress, DEFLATE, DEFLATE64, LZ4, Brotli, Zstandard and ar, cpio, jar, tar, zip, dump, 7z, arj.
More information can be found on the Apache Commons Compress homepage. The Javadoc can be browsed. Questions related to the usage of Apache Commons Compress should be posted to the user mailing list.
You can download source and binaries from our download page.
Alternatively you can pull it from the central Maven repositories:
<dependency> <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId> <artifactId>commons-compress</artifactId> <version>1.18</version> </dependency>
We accept Pull Requests via GitHub. The developer mailing list is the main channel of communication for contributors. There are some guidelines which will make applying PRs easier for us:
mvn clean test
.If you plan to contribute on a regular basis, please consider filing a contributor license agreement. You can learn more about contributing via GitHub in our contribution guidelines.
This code is under the Apache Licence v2.
See the NOTICE.txt
file for required notices and attributions.
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