Dependent JAR and Source JAR?

Question

What is a dependent JAR and what is a source JAR ? Why are they needed ? I saw it in the sentence: Dependent jars can be found in the libs folder and the corresonding source jars can be found in the libs-sources folder.

Answer 1

It would depend on exact context. Most likely:

Dependent JAR - is a java library file the application depends on, common example would be third party libraries. It contains .class files. Corresponding source jars - java source code of the dependent jar packaged with jar utility. It contains .java files.