Can I refer to a file insider a .JAR archive with an instance of File?

Hi,
I was wondering if it is possible to refer to a file stored inside a .JAR file just as if it was on a regular folder by using an instance of the java.io.File class. Otherwise, how can one do that?
Essencially what I need is to check if a particular class file is contained inside a .JAR archive.
Best regards,
Norberto

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/jar/JarFile.html
See the entries() method to get a list of everything in the jar file. Most of the time the only thing you would want to do with a File is read the bytes from it, which you can do easily using the JarFile class.

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