Implementing in-memory compression for objects in Java

Question

We have this use case where we would like to compress and store objects (in-memory) and decompress them as and when required.

The data we want to compress is quite

Answer 1

One proposal could be to use a combination of the following streams:

• ObjectOutputStream / ObjectInputStream for serializing/deserializing Java objects
• GZIPOutputStream / GZIPInputStream for compressing/uncompressing. There are other options to be found in the java.util.zip package.
• ByteArrayOutputStream / ByteArrayInputStream for storing the data in memory as a byte array