Nilesh Manohar & Erzsebet Marothi » trim whitespace http://www.nileshmanohar.com Our little space on Internet Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:42:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 stripping out extra spaces in JSP output http://www.nileshmanohar.com/2008/01/24/stripping-extra-spaces-in-jsp-output/ http://www.nileshmanohar.com/2008/01/24/stripping-extra-spaces-in-jsp-output/#comments Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:43:41 +0000 Nilesh Manohar http://www.nileshmanohar.com/2008/01/24/stripping-extra-spaces-in-jsp-output/ Continue reading →]]> While working on JSP running on TOMCAT I noticed that when views the source of the outputted jsp there is to much whitespace in the source. In order to remove all the unnecessary whitespace from the output thereby saving on bandwidth is to do the following (for tomcat).

Fine the web.xml located in the conf folder of tomcat installation directory. Find the
<servlet>
<servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>fork</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>xpoweredBy</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>3</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
and replace it with the following
<servlet>
<servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>fork</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>xpoweredBy</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>trimSpaces</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>3</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

Then just restart tomcat

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