I can uncompress zip, gzip, and rar files, but I also need to uncompress bzip2 files as well as unarchive them (.tar). I haven't come across a good library to use.
I am using Java along with Maven so ideally, I'd like to include it as a dependency in the POM.
What libraries do you recommend?
The best option I can see is Apache Commons Compress with this Maven dependency.
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-compress</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</dependency>
From the examples:
FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream("archive.tar.bz2"); FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream("archive.tar"); BZip2CompressorInputStream bzIn = new BZip2CompressorInputStream(in); final byte[] buffer = new byte[buffersize]; int n = 0; while (-1 != (n = bzIn.read(buffer))) { out.write(buffer, 0, n); } out.close(); bzIn.close();