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Enabling GZIP compression for your web application is a good way to accelerate your web site. This can reduce the size of data being transferred and, consequently, speed your application. Enabling compression on the web server will make data be transferred in compressed form. The browser will decompress the data on the fly, making the application faster. If your application uses Ajax, what usually increases the volume of data transferred from server to client, compression of data will significantly improve your application performance. Here is how to enable GZIP compression on Tomcat: edit file /conf/server.xml and add to the HTTP Connector configuration something like this: compression="on" compressionMinSize="2048" noCompressionUserAgents="gozilla, traviata" compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml" An example of a HTTP Connector configuration with compression enabled could be: Connector port="8080&

By default, Fedora Core 6 systems come with an old Java software installed, so you need to install a newer version of Java Runtime Environment to enjoy all the Java applications out there. In this quick guide, I will teach you how to update/install your Java Environment. Let's begin by downloading the latest version of JRE (Java Runtime Environment) from here. Just click on the Download link where it says Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 Update, then you'll need to accept the license and download the Linux self-extracting file. WARNING: Please remember to always replace the xx from the jre-1_5_0_xx-linux-i586.bin file with the latest version. At the moment of this guide's writing, the latest version was 09, so the file should look like this: jre-1_5_0_09-linux-i586.bin After you have finished downloading the file, you need to move it into the /opt folder. Open a console and type: mv jre-1_5_0_xx-linux-i586.bin /opt Now, you will need to make this file executable so yo