• Project Overview

NeonZip is an application for management of archive files. It has a graphic user interface that is very close to the world famous WinZip(tm) and it is completely realized in pure Java. NeonZip is Open Source software and is published under terms of GNU General Public License.

You can see screenshot here

• Project Purpose

The main purposes of this project are it to has basic support of ZIP files, to has GUI (Graphic User Interface) and to support the main archive files operations. If this project goes successfully in the feature there will be added some other popular archive formats - TAR, GZIP and etc.

• System Requirements

  NeonZip is a Java application and requires installed and configured Sun Java 2 ver1.3 or compatible. The minimum hardware requirements are CPU Pentium 266 or compatible and 64 Mb RAM. In fact these are the minimum requirements for work with Java application.

• Features list

• Main graphic interface - toolbar, statusbar.
  
• Opening and displaying of ZIP files contents.
• ZIP files extraction.
• Internationalization.
• Deleting files in zip archive.
• Creating of new ZIP files.
• Adding files from drive to ZIP archive.
• Partial Drag and Drop(from native to NeonZip)
  

For more details, please see in changes.txt

• Downloads

  Last project release:

  0.5.2

Source code 139 KB

Self-executable JAR file 266 KB

To start JAR file you have to make current the directory where JAR file is located and you have to write the following in console:
java -jar neonzip-xxxxxxx.jar

• Mailing lists

Announcement list for new releases can be found here:
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• Development

  • Project page in SourceForge
  • If you like look over last source code of the project visit the CVS server. Usually the version of the source code there is newer than the one which is in public archive.
  • If you want to join this project development and to make changes in the source you can contact directly to project maintainer.
  • If you want to test the project and help to improve with more stability please, download log4j.conf and place in application home directory located for example: '/userhomedir/.neonzip'. Neonzip create this directory after the first start. With this step you enable Jakarta Apache Log4j tracing and logging system integrated into the project. Otherwise log4j is disabled by default and can be enabled only when valid config file is found in app home directory. If you attach log output file to your bug report this can help more. Output log file named 'neonzip.log' is located also in app home directory.

• Documentation

  This project still does not have a lot documentation. The most important at this moment is to improve Javadoc documentation quality. This will make source code more readable. Because this project is in its early state it is really important to have more documentation for developers. Of course each kind of documentation is welcome.

A task with high priority is to make the documentation of abstract interface that supports different types archive formats. This interface will allow the other developers easily to integrate support of other widespread formats without a need to examine the big part of application source code.

• Third party projects integrated into the NeonZip

  • Jakarta Apache Log4j - Tracing and logging test system.
  • Regular Expressions for Java - The gnu.regexp package is a pure-Java implementation of a traditional (non-POSIX) NFA regular expression engine
  • Dean's GUI Icons - Nice GUI icons collection. Copyright(C) 1998 by Dean S. Jones. e-mail: deansjones@hotmail.com
  • jEdit - Open Source programmer's text editor (NeonZip is developed with JEdit).
    

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