How to Zip the Response for Java based Web app

 For Spring 4.x based web applications we can use the following stuff to add compression on response

Add the below dependency in pom.xml

<dependency>
   <groupId>net.sf.ehcache</groupId>
   <artifactId>ehcache-web</artifactId>
   <version>2.0.4</version>
</dependency>

Then in web.xml add the below filter declarion:

<filter>
   <filter-name>GzipFilter</filter-name>
   <filter-class>net.sf.ehcache.constructs.web.filter.GzipFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
   <filter-name>GzipFilter</filter-name>
   <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>