Root Directory Information Included in Compiled Jar File?
<p>I have a simple 'Hello World' command line Java application.  I build the .jar from the command line - no IDE is used.  I find that if the root directory is different (i.e., /hello/ vs. /hello/with/more/dirs/), the final .jar files are not exactly the same. (I compared the two with a Unix diff utility).  It appears that the root directory is encoded into the .jar file. </p>

<p>Can anyone verify that is true?  </p>

<p>Is there anything else encoded in the .jar file, such as timestamps? </p>

<p>Is there any way to prevent the path from being encoded?</p>
