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Content Compression

Compressing the content that is transferred across the network can improve performance of your applications. The fewer the number of bytes of data that is sent over the network, the faster the transfer will occur.

The following two types of content that can be compressed by Web Generation:

• Static Content such as html, js, and css files may be compressed prior to deployment of the application.
• Dynamic Content is content that is created while the application is being used and must be dynamically compressed.

Both static and dynamic compressions use the GZIP compression technique.

For static compression, compressed files are packaged in the application WAR file and deployed in their compressed form.

For dynamic compression, the content is sent through a filter and compressed on-the-fly by the CA Gen runtime.

Both Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox will recognize the GZIP compression format and will decompress the content.

Static and Dynamic Compression can be enabled or disabled using the Build Tool. By default, both types of compression are enabled.