Update files in .war and .ear directly

I have seen many applications (.war and .ear) that have their property files or resource bundles stored within the .war or .ear files.

When the time comes for deploying them into production you usually have to unzip the entire war/ear file, modify the property files or resource bundle file and zip the whole thing back up again. Sometimes, some lazy developers just want to sneak in a .class file too :)
Trust me, this can be a pain.

This is where a utility (open source, of course) called 7-zip (www.7-zip.org) comes in handy. It allows you to do all of the above, plus provides the best compression in this industry, does almost any compression format on the planet and the best-est of all, its free and open source.

Use it. Trust me, its great.