I would like to create a zip archive from a folder and keep entries for (non-empty) directories. In the code below, FileInputStream throws a FileNotFoundException when a directory is passed to AddToZip. I have tried to put a condition around the actual writing of bytes but it makes the whole archive invalid. How can I add directory entries to the archive? public static void addToZip(File directoryToZip, File file, ZipOutputStream zos) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException { String zipFilePath = file.getCanonicalPath().substring(directoryToZip.getCanonicalPath().length() + 1,file.getCanonicalPath().length()); System.out.println("Writing '" + zipFilePath + "' to zip file"); ZipEntry zipEntry = new ZipEntry(zipFilePath); zos.putNextEntry(zipEntry); FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file); // Throws a FileNotFoundException when directory byte[] bytes = new byte[1024]; int length; while ((length = fis.read(bytes)) >= 0) { zos.write(bytes, 0, length); } zos.closeEntry(); fis.close(); }