How to open a EAR/WAR file in windows 7

Question

I have a few EAR/WAR files which are Java archives and I would like Windows 7 to open these files the way it opens a file with extension zip.

So I open this war file and in the list of softwares available with "Open" I see MS Word, Notepad etc but nothing about CompressedFolderView.

I also tried manually specifying the location of exe (I thought this was expand.exe) but that does not work. Does someone know if I can make this work? Or should I use Winzip or some such utilities?

score 30 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 13 '14 at 20:32

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If you tell Windows that JAR, WAR and EAR files are compressed folders, Explorer will show you what is inside without having to rename them to ZIP. Very helpful when there is a JAR inside a WAR.

Run this in an Administrative Command Prompt window:

assoc .jar=CompressedFolder
assoc .war=CompressedFolder
assoc .ear=CompressedFolder

(Better late than never)

edited Feb 13 '14 at 20:32

Canadian Luke

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answered Sep 09 '11 at 11:25

Mencial

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score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 21 '10 at 14:47

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7zip will work, simply associate the ear/war extension with it.

answered Apr 21 '10 at 14:47

DHayes

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 19 '19 at 13:14

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Try this one: Jar Explorer
Apart from browsing WAR,EAR,JAR,ZIP,APK files you can see content of file, decompile java classes and even edit some files without unpacking.
click to see screenshot

answered Nov 19 '19 at 13:14

user12377884

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 13 '17 at 11:47

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The Simplest Way is download JD- GUI (Java Decompiler). Select the .ear file and open it from decompiler which will show all the internal files.

answered Mar 13 '17 at 11:47

amar bhise

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How to open a EAR/WAR file in windows 7

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