Which compression (is GZIP the most popular) servlet filter would you suggest?

Question

I am looking for a GZIP servlet filter to be used in a high volume web-app. I doesn\'t want to use the container specific options.

Requirement

1. Ability

Answer 1

From what i've seen, most people generally use the gzip compression filter. Typically from ehcache.

The GZIP filter implementation is: net.sf.ehcache.constructs.web.filter.GzipFilter

The Maven coordinate for including it in your project is:

    net.sf.ehcache
    ehcache-web
    2.0.4

You will also need to specify an SLF4J logging target. If you don't know what this is or don't care slf4j-jdk14 or slf4j-simple works:

    org.slf4j
    slf4j-jdk14
    1.6.4