Java tutorial
import java.io.BufferedInputStream; import java.io.BufferedOutputStream; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.FileNotFoundException; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.zip.Deflater; import java.util.zip.ZipEntry; import java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { String zipFileName = "ziptest.zip"; String[] entries = new String[2]; entries[0] = "test1.txt"; entries[1] = "notes" + File.separator + "test2.txt"; zip(zipFileName, entries); } public static void zip(String zipFileName, String[] zipEntries) { try (ZipOutputStream zos = new ZipOutputStream( new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(zipFileName)))) { // Set the compression level to best compression zos.setLevel(Deflater.BEST_COMPRESSION); for (int i = 0; i < zipEntries.length; i++) { File entryFile = new File(zipEntries[i]); if (!entryFile.exists()) { System.out.println("The entry file " + entryFile.getAbsolutePath() + " does not exist"); System.out.println("Aborted processing."); return; } ZipEntry ze = new ZipEntry(zipEntries[i]); zos.putNextEntry(ze); addEntryContent(zos, zipEntries[i]); zos.closeEntry(); } } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } public static void addEntryContent(ZipOutputStream zos, String entryFileName) throws IOException, FileNotFoundException { BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(entryFileName)); byte[] buffer = new byte[1024]; int count = -1; while ((count = bis.read(buffer)) != -1) { zos.write(buffer, 0, count); } bis.close(); } }