How to create a zip file using Zip File System Provider

The zip file system provider introduced in the JDK 7 release is an implementation of a custom file system provider. The zip file system provider treats a zip or JAR file as a file system and provides the ability to manipulate the contents of the file.

According to the docs, we can use the java.nio.file.FileSystems class to create a new zip file system and manipulate its’ content directly.

Here is a code snippet that can compress one file or directory into a zip file.