How to Compress/Decompress tar.gz files in java

Question

Can anyone show me the correct way to compress and decompress tar.gzip files in java i've been searching but the most i can find is either zip or gzip(alone).

Answer 1

I've written a wrapper for commons-compress called jarchivelib that makes it easy to extract or compress from and into File objects.

Example code would look like this:

File archive = new File("/home/thrau/archive.tar.gz");
File destination = new File("/home/thrau/archive/");

Archiver archiver = ArchiverFactory.createArchiver("tar", "gz");
archiver.extract(archive, destination);