diff --git a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/jar/JarToolModularJarArchiver.java b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/jar/JarToolModularJarArchiver.java
index 93c95a51c..078efa16c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/jar/JarToolModularJarArchiver.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/jar/JarToolModularJarArchiver.java
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
 import org.apache.commons.compress.parallel.InputStreamSupplier;
 import org.apache.commons.io.output.NullPrintStream;
 import org.codehaus.plexus.archiver.ArchiverException;
+import org.codehaus.plexus.archiver.util.Streams;
 import org.codehaus.plexus.archiver.zip.ConcurrentJarCreator;
 import org.codehaus.plexus.util.IOUtil;
 
@@ -165,7 +166,7 @@ private void fixLastModifiedTimeZipEntries() throws IOException {
         Path tmpZip = Files.createTempFile(destFile.getParent(), null, null, attributes);
         try {
             try (ZipFile zipFile = new ZipFile(getDestFile());
-                    ZipOutputStream out = new ZipOutputStream(Files.newOutputStream(tmpZip))) {
+                    ZipOutputStream out = new ZipOutputStream(Streams.fileOutputStream(tmpZip))) {
                 Enumeration<? extends ZipEntry> entries = zipFile.entries();
                 while (entries.hasMoreElements()) {
                     ZipEntry entry = entries.nextElement();
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/tar/TarArchiver.java b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/tar/TarArchiver.java
index ba53a1b90..6c3eb1160 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/tar/TarArchiver.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/tar/TarArchiver.java
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
-import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream;
 
 import io.airlift.compress.snappy.SnappyFramedOutputStream;
@@ -127,7 +126,7 @@ protected void execute() throws ArchiverException, IOException {
         getLogger().info("Building tar: " + tarFile.getAbsolutePath());
 
         try {
-            tOut = new TarArchiveOutputStream(compress(compression, Files.newOutputStream(tarFile.toPath())), "UTF8");
+            tOut = new TarArchiveOutputStream(compress(compression, Streams.fileOutputStream(tarFile)), "UTF8");
             if (longFileMode.isTruncateMode()) {
                 tOut.setLongFileMode(TarArchiveOutputStream.LONGFILE_TRUNCATE);
             } else if (longFileMode.isPosixMode() || longFileMode.isPosixWarnMode()) {
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/util/Streams.java b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/util/Streams.java
index dbdd71f77..1e8f84bde 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/util/Streams.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/util/Streams.java
@@ -26,9 +26,11 @@
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
 
 import org.codehaus.plexus.archiver.ArchiverException;
 import org.codehaus.plexus.util.IOUtil;
+import org.codehaus.plexus.util.io.CachingOutputStream;
 
 public class Streams {
 
@@ -60,12 +62,16 @@ public static InputStream fileInputStream(File file, String operation) throws Ar
     }
 
     public static OutputStream fileOutputStream(File file) throws IOException {
-        return Files.newOutputStream(file.toPath());
+        return new CachingOutputStream(file);
+    }
+
+    public static OutputStream fileOutputStream(Path file) throws IOException {
+        return new CachingOutputStream(file);
     }
 
     public static OutputStream fileOutputStream(File file, String operation) throws ArchiverException {
         try {
-            return Files.newOutputStream(file.toPath());
+            return new CachingOutputStream(file);
         } catch (IOException e) {
             throw new ArchiverException(
                     "Problem creating output file for " + operation + " " + file.getParent() + ", " + e.getMessage());
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/zip/AbstractZipArchiver.java b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/zip/AbstractZipArchiver.java
index 44e9f2ebb..0b4bdb5e7 100755
--- a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/zip/AbstractZipArchiver.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/zip/AbstractZipArchiver.java
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
-import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.nio.file.attribute.FileTime;
 import java.util.Calendar;
 import java.util.Deque;
@@ -550,7 +549,7 @@ protected boolean createEmptyZip(File zipFile) throws ArchiverException {
         // Must create it manually.
         getLogger().info("Note: creating empty " + archiveType + " archive " + zipFile);
 
-        try (OutputStream os = Files.newOutputStream(zipFile.toPath())) {
+        try (OutputStream os = Streams.fileOutputStream(zipFile.toPath())) {
             // Cf. PKZIP specification.
             byte[] empty = new byte[22];
             empty[0] = 80; // P
@@ -652,8 +651,10 @@ protected void close() throws IOException {
             if (zipArchiveOutputStream != null) {
                 if (zOut != null) {
                     zOut.writeTo(zipArchiveOutputStream);
+                } else {
+                    zipArchiveOutputStream.close();
                 }
-                zipArchiveOutputStream.close();
+                zipArchiveOutputStream = null;
             }
         } catch (IOException ex) {
             // If we're in this finally clause because of an
@@ -670,13 +671,9 @@ protected void close() throws IOException {
             }
 
         } catch (InterruptedException e) {
-            IOException ex = new IOException("InterruptedException exception");
-            ex.initCause(e.getCause());
-            throw ex;
+            throw new IOException("InterruptedException exception", e.getCause());
         } catch (ExecutionException e) {
-            IOException ex = new IOException("Execution exception");
-            ex.initCause(e.getCause());
-            throw ex;
+            throw new IOException("Execution exception", e.getCause());
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/zip/OffloadingOutputStream.java b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/zip/OffloadingOutputStream.java
index 4fc0abffa..115add4f4 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/zip/OffloadingOutputStream.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/zip/OffloadingOutputStream.java
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 import java.nio.file.Path;
 
 import org.apache.commons.io.output.ThresholdingOutputStream;
+import org.codehaus.plexus.archiver.util.Streams;
 
 /**
  * Offloads to disk when a given memory consumption has been reached
@@ -35,7 +36,7 @@ class OffloadingOutputStream extends ThresholdingOutputStream {
     // ----------------------------------------------------------- Data members
 
     /**
-     * The output stream to which data will be written prior to the theshold
+     * The output stream to which data will be written prior to the threshold
      * being reached.
      */
     private ByteArrayOutputStream memoryOutputStream;
@@ -111,7 +112,7 @@ protected OutputStream getStream() throws IOException {
     @Override
     protected void thresholdReached() throws IOException {
         outputPath = Files.createTempFile(prefix, suffix);
-        currentOutputStream = Files.newOutputStream(outputPath);
+        currentOutputStream = Streams.fileOutputStream(outputPath);
     }
 
     public InputStream getInputStream() throws IOException {