Is there a simple tool to make .cab file to speed up applet downloading?

I wrote a Swing applet. It can be displayed on IE correctly. However, download the applet takes quite a while. Is there a simple tool (instead of the whole pkg of Microsoft's SDK) which can be used to make a .cab file to speed up IE download? Thank you for your help!
[290 byte] By [huangm] at [2007-9-26 4:20:25]
# 1
put your classes in a .jar file.
darrelln at 2007-6-29 17:23:43 > top of Java-index,Archived Forums,Swing...
# 2

> put your classes in a .jar file.

Thank you for your reply! However, I was told that IE does not recognize jar (and I could not notice a difference with or without using jar). Some one said that cab file should be used for IE. Do you (or some one else) knows how to create cab file and if it will really help?

Thanks!

huangm at 2007-6-29 17:23:43 > top of Java-index,Archived Forums,Swing...
# 3
Jars should work in IE, mine do. If you want something else use winzip to put all your classes in one archive, then use&lt applet code=main archive=myjava.zip &gtas far as I know, WinZip makes and IE takes any sort of archive, jar,zip,cab etcShish
shishthemoomin at 2007-6-29 17:23:43 > top of Java-index,Archived Forums,Swing...
# 4
IE does recognize jar files but doesn't recognize signed jar files. It only recognizes signed cab files
sadius at 2007-6-29 17:23:43 > top of Java-index,Archived Forums,Swing...