What Is activation.jar? I heard it's related to JAF (JavaBeans Activation Framework) 1.0.2?

The if you have an activation.jar file of 55147 bytes, it is the JAR file of the Sun implementation version 1.0.2 of the JAF (JavaBeans Activation Framework) 1.0 specification.

activation.jar is provided as part of the Sun JAF 1.0.2 binary package, jaf-1_0_2-upd2.zip.

JAR File Size and Download Location:

JAR name: activation.jar, activation-1.0.2.jar
Target JDK version: 1.1
File name: activation.jar
File size: 55147 bytes
Release date: 07-May-2005
Download: Oracle JAF Download

Manifest of the JAR:

Implementation-Version: 1.0.2
Specification-Title: JavaBeans(TM) Activation Framework Specification
Specification-Version: 1.0
Extension-Name: javax.activation
Implementation-Vendor-Id: com.sun
Implementation-Vendor: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Specification-Vendor: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

List of Classes in the JAR:

javax/activation/SecuritySupport12
javax/activation/ActivationDataFlavor
javax/activation/CommandInfo
javax/activation/CommandMap
javax/activation/CommandObject
javax/activation/DataContentHandler
javax/activation/DataContentHandlerFactory
javax/activation/DataHandler
javax/activation/MimeType
javax/activation/DataHandlerDataSource
javax/activation/DataSourceDataContentHandler
javax/activation/ObjectDataContentHandler
javax/activation/DataSource
javax/activation/FileDataSource
javax/activation/FileTypeMap
javax/activation/MailcapCommandMap
javax/activation/MimeTypeParameterList
javax/activation/MimeTypeParseException
javax/activation/MimetypesFileTypeMap
javax/activation/SecuritySupport
javax/activation/URLDataSource
javax/activation/UnsupportedDataTypeException
com/sun/activation/registries/MimeTypeFile
com/sun/activation/registries/LineTokenizer
com/sun/activation/registries/MailcapFile
com/sun/activation/registries/MailcapParseException
com/sun/activation/registries/MimeTypeEntry
com/sun/activation/registries/MailcapTokenizer
com/sun/activation/viewers/ImageViewer
com/sun/activation/viewers/ImageViewerCanvas
com/sun/activation/viewers/TextEditor
com/sun/activation/viewers/TextViewer

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