How to enable gzip compression for Tomcat?.

You should edit server.xml which is located under conf directory of tomcat installation.
You should add these attributes to connector element.


compression="on" compressableMimeTypes="text/html,text/xml,text/javascript,text/css"

After the modification connector element would be like this ;

<8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" 

connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443"

compression="on" compressableMimeTypes="text/html,text/xml,
text/javascript,text/css"/>