What is the best method to GZIP a JSF-Seam web app pages

Question

I\'m developing an JSF web app on Tomcat, planning to use Seam in the near future, and I want to add compression of our web pages and resources (i.e. Javascript & CSS fi

Answer 1

We use JBoss Seam on JBoss AS proxied and load balanced behind apache + mod_proxy_ajp with mod_deflate to compress outgoing traffic.

Advantages of this setup

• lots of examples in the net
• easy configuration/debugging considering quirks of different user agents
• changing the configuration at runtime (apachectl graceful instead of restarting webapp/tomcat to reflect changes).