I'm working on a project right now where my client wants to be able to automaticaly zip a file up and then upload it to a server via ftp.
Right now I'm facing the problem of getting the file zipped on the client’s side without the client needing to actually zip the file.

I plan on doing this by running a command through the command line.

I have heard that I can do that with Java. So I want to read into it a little. Anyone know of places I can look?

I open to other ideas too.

Originally posted by Shroder
I'm working on a project right now where my client wants to be able to automaticaly zip a file up and then upload it to a server via ftp.
Right now I'm facing the problem of getting the file zipped on the client’s side without the client needing to actually zip the file.

I plan on doing this by running a command through the command line.

I have heard that I can do that with Java. So I want to read into it a little. Anyone know of places I can look?

I open to other ideas too.

Well here a link to the Java documentation. I'm sure you can find examples on google, or the usenet archives at groups.google.com (groups to look in would comp.lang.java)

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/zip/package-summary.html