Compress components with gzip - Java EE

Question

I am looking to improve front-end performance of my application, so I used YSlow tool in Firefox. When I ran this tool for my app, in the YSlow grade tab it showed up a issue \'

Answer 1

You normally configure it at appserver/servletcontainer level. I don't know which one you're using, so here's just a Tomcat targeted example. In the /conf/server.xml configure the component as follows:

That's all. Just add compression="on". The other servers provides a comparable setting. consult its documentation for details. Often it's exactly the same because they're built on top of Tomcat.

For more YSlow hints in Java EE webapplication perspective you may find this blog article more useful.