Serve Gzipped content with Java Servlets

Question

I was wondering if there was an easy way to serve GZipped content with Java Servlets. I already have the app up and running so the modifications needed should be to

Answer 1

Depending on your container, the container will most likely do this for you. It may do it automatically, or you might need to manually configure it to do it for you. The advantage of this method is zero code changes. And, again, depending on container, you can conditionally enable/disable the compression based on where the request comes from or source browser.

For Tomcat, have a look at the compression attribute on the HTTP config pages (v5.5, v6.0).