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How to open a EAR/WAR file in windows 7

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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 ma…

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Fix for: How to open a EAR/WAR file in windows 7

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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: (…

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