Use the following Java method to Zip a set of files in a directory.
{
boolean status = false;
int BUFFER = 2048;
try
{
BufferedInputStream origin = null;
FileOutputStream dest = new FileOutputStream(zipFilePath);
ZipOutputStream out = new ZipOutputStream(new BufferedOutputStream(dest));
byte data[] = new byte[BUFFER];
// get a list of files from current directory
File f = new File(dataDir);
String files[] = f.list();
for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++)
{
FileInputStream fi = new FileInputStream(dataDir + File.separator + files[i]);
origin = new BufferedInputStream(fi, BUFFER);
ZipEntry entry = new ZipEntry(files[i]);
out.putNextEntry(entry);
int count;
while ((count = origin.read(data, 0, BUFFER)) != -1)
{
out.write(data, 0, count);
}
origin.close();
}
out.close();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
throw e;
}
return status;
}