Re: GZIP, Hessian and Spring

Did I understand you right ?
To enable Compression I just have to enable http-Compression with my
servlet-container (Tomcat).
Hessian-Cpp will handle it automaticly.

Does Hessian-Java support this, too ?

Thanks,
Yves

> AndrewPeirson@xxx.co.zw wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>
> Hi,
>
>> I'm pretty new to all three technologies (GZIP, hessian and Spring) and
>
>
> Well I think Spring has nothing to do with it whatsoever.
>
>> was wondering if there is any way to compress the data going across
>> the wire when using hessian and spring. I searched the archives and
>> found
>
>
> Again, forget Spring :)
> Assume you have a really smart HTTP client that can handle HTTP
> gzipped replies, then all you need to do is to configure HTTP
> compression in your web server and it will work automagically. For
> instance this is how we achieve hessian data compression when using it
> with Flash clients - no need to implement encoding and decoding in Flash.
> On the other hand you can always wrap the hessian stream yourself
> using whatever algorithm you see fit, for instance with different
> trade-offs in terms of compression rate versus CPU usage (both very
> important for mobile clients for instance). This is basically what the
> c++ client does; it checks the server's reply for the GZip magic and
> if found proceeds to ungzip the stream and then passes it over to the
> hessian decoding pipeline as usual. This obviously requires some
> changes to the Hessian servlet to add GZipping to the outputstream,
> but they're really simple to implement.
>
>> that a new feature request has been posted but couldn't work out whether
>
> [...]
>
>> would be appreciated. Also, if we add SSL into the mix, how much, if
>> anything, changes.
>>
>
> It all depends on what client you're using, but you should be able to
> make SSL work pretty quickly. Configure the web server, make sure the
> client library supports SSL and off you go.
>
>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Andrew Peirson.
>> (Central Africa Building Society - Zimbabwe)
>
>
> Cheers,
Received on Thu 02 Jun 2005 01:59:46 -0700