reading MANIFEST.MF file from jar file using JAVA

Question

Is there any way i can read the contents of a jar file. like i want to read the manifest file in order to find the creator of the jar file and version. Is there any way to a

Answer 1

I would suggest to make following:

Package aPackage = MyClassName.class.getPackage();
String implementationVersion = aPackage.getImplementationVersion();
String implementationVendor = aPackage.getImplementationVendor();

Where MyClassName can be any class from your application written by you.