Here you can find the source of unzip(File file, File targetDirectory)
public static void unzip(File file, File targetDirectory) throws Exception
//package com.java2s; /**//from w w w . jav a2s . c om * e-Science Central * Copyright (C) 2008-2013 School of Computing Science, Newcastle University * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License * version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation at: * http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */ import java.io.*; import java.util.zip.*; import java.util.*; public class Main { /** Unzip a file to a specified directory */ public static void unzip(File file, File targetDirectory) throws Exception { Enumeration<? extends ZipEntry> entries; ZipFile zipFile = new ZipFile(file); try { File extractFile; entries = zipFile.entries(); while (entries.hasMoreElements()) { ZipEntry entry = entries.nextElement(); if (!entry.getName().startsWith(".")) { if (entry.isDirectory()) { // Assume directories are stored parents first then children. (new File(targetDirectory, entry.getName())).mkdirs(); continue; } InputStream inStream = zipFile.getInputStream(entry); BufferedOutputStream outStream = null; try { extractFile = new File(targetDirectory, entry.getName()); if (extractFile.getParentFile() != null && !extractFile.getParentFile().exists()) { extractFile.getParentFile().mkdirs(); } outStream = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(extractFile)); copyInputStream(inStream, outStream); } finally { inStream.close(); if (outStream != null) { outStream.close(); } } } } } finally { zipFile.close(); } } /** Copy the data from one stream to another */ public static final void copyInputStream(InputStream in, OutputStream out) throws IOException { byte[] buffer = new byte[4096]; int len; while ((len = in.read(buffer)) >= 0) { out.write(buffer, 0, len); } out.close(); in.close(); } }