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pack:tag is a JSP-Taglib that minifies, compresses and combines resources (like JavaScript and CSS) and caches them in memory or in a generated file. It works transparent to the user/developer and the compressing-algorithms are pluggable.
pack:tag - one minute quick start tutorial
pack:tag - a packed guide to website performance optimization.pdf
download pack:tag
Features
pack:tag offers many advantages to your development and deployment:
- Minification of JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets
- Caching to memory (default) or file system
- The minified content is delivered gzipped (memory)
- Combination of resources
- Combination of subdirectories (wildcard syntax)
- External resources can be packed and then served locally
- Cached resources are updated automatically on change
- Minification and compression adjustable on single resources
- Relative path support (memory)
- Charset support
- Strict XHTML conformity
- Apache Standard taglib support for evaluations
- Advanced caching techniques (etag configuration, 304 status header, expire header, ..)
- No resource will be written out twice
- Cloaking of resources
- Caching Provider are pluggable (Ehcache Provider is included)
Benefits you get when compressing static resources with pack:tag:
- Reduced bandwidth
- Reduced number of requests
- Faster loading time for the client
- Browser caching side-effects of JavaScript files solved
- Obfuscation of the content (depending on the strategy, at least uglyfying) and the resource names, cloaking is also possible
Requirements
Feedback
If you have suggestions, found bugs or want to give feedback in general, please go to the project page, hosted on sourceforge, and leave a message:
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/packtag
About
Developed by Daniel Galán y Martins in 2007-2008, Licensed under LGPL 2.1
