[jboss-dev-forums] [Design the new POJO MicroContainer] - Re: Silent failover on broken jar file

[adrian@jboss.org]

"alesj" wrote : 
  | While you can easily rename file, you probably cannot fix it.
  | But how many .jar files did you see that were not actually jars, opposed to broken zips. ;-)

You mean besides directories being unpacked jars? ;-)

I guess we could add an extra check that tries to open the raw stream 
and see whether it contains the magic PK at the start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)
If it does then throw an IOException about the broken archive.

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