title: Alternative JAVA WAR/ZIP/JAR reader/manipulator library
body: <p>I am struggling to find some alternative library which would make browsing some.war file.</p>
  
  <p>Problem is I need to parse WAR file then find specific JAR by name and some of the contents inside JAR file. Then I must parse those contents e.g. pom.xml from those jars to create a separate maven project module with only certain dependencies and configuration appended from other resources. I found <strong>java.util.zip</strong> package a bit inconvenient and cluttering.</p>
  
  <p>Is there some alternative to <strong>java.util.zip</strong> that could make parsing/reading war without such headaches like switching between ZipFile/ZipEntry -> JarFile/JarEntry ? Something that could treat zip/war/jar and jar files inside war archive just like a directory ? Or one must craft his/her own solution ?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you,</p>