Java Tutorial/File/ZipOutputStream

Compressing Streams: Zipper, Java example

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
import java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream;
public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    String outputFile = "a.zip";
    int level = 9;
    FileOutputStream fout = new FileOutputStream(outputFile);
    ZipOutputStream zout = new ZipOutputStream(fout);
    zout.setLevel(level);
    ZipEntry ze = new ZipEntry("a.zip");
    FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream("b.dat");
    zout.putNextEntry(ze);
    for (int c = fin.read(); c != -1; c = fin.read()) {
      zout.write(c);
    }
    fin.close();
    zout.close();
  }
}

Create ZipOutputStream from FileOutputStream

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
import java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream;
public class MainClass {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    String outputFile = "new.zip";
    // Default to maximum compression
    int level = 9;
    int start = 1;
    FileOutputStream fout = new FileOutputStream(outputFile);
    ZipOutputStream zout = new ZipOutputStream(fout);
    zout.setLevel(level);
    for (int i = start; i < args.length; i++) {
      ZipEntry ze = new ZipEntry(args[i]);
      FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream(args[i]);
      try {
        System.out.println("Compressing " + args[i]);
        zout.putNextEntry(ze);
        for (int c = fin.read(); c != -1; c = fin.read()) {
          zout.write(c);
        }
      } finally {
        fin.close();
      }
    }
    zout.close();
  }
}