What's a good compression library for Java?

Question

I need to compress portions of our application's network traffic for performance. I presume this means I need to stay away from some of the newer algorithms like bzip2, which I think I have heard is slower. JavaScript questions and answers, JavaScript questions pdf, JavaScript question bank, JavaScript questions and answers pdf, mcq on JavaScript pdf, JavaScript questions and solutions, JavaScript mcq Test , Interview JavaScript questions, JavaScript Questions for Interview, JavaScript MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions)

Answer 1

You can use Deflater/Inflater which is built into the JDK. There are also GZIPInputStream and GZIPOutputStream, but it really depends on your exact use. Edit: Reading further comments it looks like the network taffic is HTTP. Depending on the server, it probably has support for compression (especially with deflate/gzip). The problem then becomes on the client. If the client is a browser it probably already supports it. If your client is a webservices client or an http client check the documentation for that package to see if it is supported. It looks like jakarta-commons httpclient may require you to manually do the compression. To enable this on the client side you will need to do something like .addRequestHeader("Accept-Encoding","gzip,deflate");