Question: I have a dynamic text file that picks content from a database according to the user's query. I have to write this content into a text file and zip it in a folder in a servlet. How should I do this?

Answer: 
Java 7 has ZipFileSystem built in, that can be used to create, write and read file from zip file.

[Java Doc: ZipFileSystem Provider](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/io/fsp/zipfilesystemprovider.html)

```
Map<String, String> env = new HashMap<>();
// Create the zip file if it doesn't exist
env.put("create", "true");

URI uri = URI.create("jar:file:/codeSamples/zipfs/zipfstest.zip");

try (FileSystem zipfs = FileSystems.newFileSystem(uri, env)) {
    Path externalTxtFile = Paths.get("/codeSamples/zipfs/SomeTextFile.txt");
    Path pathInZipfile = zipfs.getPath("/SomeTextFile.txt");          
    // Copy a file into the zip file
    Files.copy(externalTxtFile, pathInZipfile, StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING); 
}

```
```
public static void zipFromTxt(String zipFilePath, String txtFilePath) {
    Assert.notNull(zipFilePath, "Zip file path is required");
    Assert.notNull(txtFilePath, "Txt file path is required");
    zipFromTxt(new File(zipFilePath), new File(txtFilePath));
}

public static void zipFromTxt(File zipFile, File txtFile) {
    ZipOutputStream out = null;
    FileInputStream in = null;
    try {
        Assert.notNull(zipFile, "Zip file is required");
        Assert.notNull(txtFile, "Txt file is required");
        out = new ZipOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(zipFile));
        in = new FileInputStream(txtFile);
        out.putNextEntry(new ZipEntry(txtFile.getName()));
        int len;
        byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
        while ((len = in.read(buffer)) > 0) {
            out.write(buffer, 0, len);
            out.flush();
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        log.info("Zip from txt occur error,Detail message:{}", e.toString());
    } finally {
        try {
            if (in != null) in.close();
            if (out != null) {
                out.closeEntry();
                out.close();
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            log.info("Zip from txt close error,Detail message:{}", e.toString());
        }
    }
}

```