/n software IP*Works! Zip
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Adds compression and decompression functionality to web and desktop applications using popular file and data compression standards such as Zip, Tar, Gzip and Jar.
The current release of IP*Works! Zip allows developers to easily integrate compression and decompression into applications using the Zip, Tar, Gzip, 7-Zip, Bzip2, ZCompress or Jar standards for compression. The IP*Works! Zip components were built from the ground up combining exceptional.
Key Features:
- Major Compression Standards: Components support major compression and archiving standards including Zip, Jar, Gzip, 7-Zip, Bzip2, ZCompress and Tar
- Blazing fast performance: High-performance libraries with speed and compression optimisation provides the utmost flexibility for developers
- Uniform & Extensible Design: Very easy to use, with a uniform, intuitive and extensible design. Common component interfaces across platforms & technologies
- Industrial Strength AES Encryption: 128-bit, 192-bit and 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption, compatible with WinZip 9.0
- Technical Support: Backed by an expert team of support professionals. Unlimited free Email support or paid Premium Support options
- Other Features: Detailed documentation, hundreds of sample applications and fully-indexed help files
/n software IP*Works! Zip – Features
The current release of IP*Works! Zip allows developers to easily integrate compression and decompression into application using the Zip, Tar, Gzip or Jar standards for compression. The IP*Works! Zip components were built from the ground up combining exceptional speed with an excellent data compression ratio.
- Major Compression Standards
Components support major compression and archiving standards including Zip, Jar, Gzip and Tar. - Uniform & Extensible Design
Very easy to use, with a uniform, intuitive, and extensible design. Common component interfaces across platforms & technologies. - Outstanding Technical Support
Backed by an expert team of support professionals. Unlimited free Email support or paid Premium Support options. - Blazing fast performance
High-performance libraries with optimizable speed and compression provides the utmost flexibility for developers. - Industrial Strength AES Encryption
128-bit, 192-bit, and 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption, compatible with WinZip 9.0 - Other Features :
Detailed documentation, hundreds of sample applications, fully-indexed help files, Royalty free licensing, and more.
Highlights
- Streaming support during file compression/decompression.
- Delete individual files within and archive without decompressing the entire file.
- Zip file password encryption.
- List the contents of Zip files without having to decompress.
- Configurable compression level and performance optimization based on either speed or compression ratio.
- Easily compress or decompress entire directories and their contents.
- Fast, robust, and reliable, the components consume a minimum of resources.
- PKZip-compatible Zip compressor for creating self-extracting archives for native Windows platforms (.NET Editions Only).
- 128-bit, 192-bit, and 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption.
- Zip64 Archives support – 4GB+ zip files with virtually unlimited number of included files.
- Native development components for all supported platforms and component technologies.
- A complete unified framework with a common easy-to-learn object model and simplified interfaces allowing you to be more productive.
- Rigorously tested, rock solid components that have undergone hundreds of thousands of hours of testing both internally by our QA team and externally through customer installations.
- Detailed reference documentation, hundreds of sample applications, fully-indexed help files, and an extensive online knowledge base.
- Backed by multi-tier professional support, including free email support and enterprise-level paid support.
The following components are included:
- Gzip: implements a Gzip compressor and decompressor compliant to RFC 1952 and compatible with the UNIX gzip and gunzip utilities
- Tar: implements a tar archive utility compatible with the UNIX tar and untar utilities and gzip compression. Create or decompress .tar.gz archives
- Jar: create or decompress Java archive files
- Zip: implements a PKZip-compatible Zip compressor and decompressor the most common compression used on Windows Platforms.
NEW IN VERSION 8.0
- Support for native input and output streams.
- Collections have been enabled across the entire suite of Version 8.0 components.
- Support for 64-bit architectures.
- GZIP LZW/LZC Unix Compress.
- File specific encryption algorithms & password support.
- and much more!
New features in version 7.1 include:
- All Editions – Now with a PKZip-compatible Zip compressor for creating windows self-extracting archives.
New features in version 7 include:
- 128-bit, 192-bit, and 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption.
- Zip64 Archives support – 4GB+ zip files with virtually unlimited number of included files.
- Compression algorithms have been further optimized for speed and compression.
- Read and write zip files in memory without file system access or temporary file creation.