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

An alternative Servlet filter can be found here:

http://onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/11/19/filters.html

Like Ehcache, it tests to see if the browser supports it. I can't say categorically if it plays nicely with Seam, but I've used it in the past without trouble.