This is a desktop Swing application which will recursively scan a directory and index a large number of jar files all at once. It then allows to explore individual jar files or search all jar files at the same time. It provides a number of views for resources: class - specific, shows all class information: interfaces, super class, methods, fields, as well as views for text, HTML, images.

You need to have Java 1.4 or higher. Download the file: jarexplorer-0.7.jar and execute the following command:

java -jar jarexplorer-0.7.jar

Almost nothing to configure. There is one property file:

.JarExplorer.properties

This file contains a property:

zip.extensions=jar,zip,war,ear,rar

You can add other file extensions here, as long as the files themselves are in zip format.