"jaikiran" wrote : A bit more on a higher level - Assuming we have a ZipEntryContext/Handler, does it know of the entries within that zip? I see a ZipEntryContext.entries Map in the code, but haven't yet figured out whether looking directly into this would indicate the presence/absence of a resource within the zip. | | So if a getChild(String path) is invoked, maybe looking into this "entries" would tell us whether it's present or not? | Yes, ZipEntryContext.entries contains relative path of the entry within a zip as the key and EntryInfo representing the entry as the value. It reflects the state of a zip archive in a specific point in time. Since entries is initialized in a lazy manner you need to make sure it was initialized first - before relying on direct entries.get(path). ensureEntries() is the method that does that and it is called from checkIfModified(). But you can call ensureEntries() directly of course - without going through checkIfModified(). There is initStatus field you can use to check that entries have been initialized: | if (initStatus == InitializationStatus.INITIALIZED) { | EntryInfo entry = entries.get(path); | } | But again, if you want to detect changes in the underlying zip file, you have to call checkIfModified which does the reinit of entries for you if it detects a change. - marko View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4251468#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...