Eclipse update packing tool

Overview

The update packing tool processes a hierarchy of arbitrarily nested JARs and ZIP files. It is a generic utility that performs a depth first traversal of a nested hierarchy of ZIPs and JARs, performs various commands on each of the JARs in the hierarchy, and then rebuilds the same hierarchy of ZIPs and JARs again. Currently its main functions are: The packing tool is used in the following contexts:

Tool usage

To run the packing tool, you need a 1.5 JRE installed. The tool is run by invoking Java as follows:
	java jarprocessor.jar [options] input
Where input is either a zip file, a directory, or a JAR (or a pack.gz file). All files ending in ".jar" or ".pack.gz" in the provided zip or directory hierarchy will be processed. The following additional command line arguments are supported: Additionally, when the input is a zip file, it may contain a file called pack.properties. The pack.properties file supports the following values:

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