How to remove contents from .jar files

[Hamsagayathri Palanisamy]

Hi,
can anyone please say me how to remove files(contents) from .jar file?
For Example:
I have created a sample .jar file with

jar cf sample.jar A.class B.class etc

Now i want to remove all except A.class from sample.jar.

How could i do that?Thanks in Advance.

-Thanks & Regards,
Hamsa

[Pranav Bhatt]

Here's one way. change the extension of your .jar to .zip. Unzip it and delete whatever file you want to. Again you can jar the left out file as you already did.
hope this help

[Hamsagayathri Palanisamy]

Originally posted by pranav bhatt:
Here's one way. change the extension of your .jar to .zip. Unzip it and delete whatever file you want to. Again you can jar the left out file as you already did.
hope this help

Thank you pranav, is there any commands to remove contents from .jar file?

-Thanks & Regards,
Hamsa

[Ben Souther]

Since this is not related to SCJP, I'm going to move it to our General Computing forum.