Jar Browser

Introduction

The Jar Browser is a simple Swing app for browsing a set of jar files.

Jar Browser is great for:

• Figuring out what jar class X lives in
• Finding duplicate classes in separate jars
• Seeing the contents of the CLASSPATH
• Browsing code by decompiling classes from jars on the fly

Features

• Browse all the jars from a directory tree, or from the CLASSPATH
• Search for classes by name across a set of jars
• Decompile classes from within a jar
• Search for text within decompiled class listing

Future Enhancements

• "Class Tree" listing which shows all classes from a set of jars organized by package
• Additional file viewers: java source, image files
• Recursive handling of embedded jars and zips. This would be good for J2EE packages like WARs and EARs.
• "Save listing to file"
• Hypertext jump from one source listing to another

Credits

Jar Browser was created by Scott Persinger.

Thanks to Conexus, Inc. for supporting this project by employing me!