Configure Simple Logging Facade for Java (SLF4J) with log4j as underlying logging framework

Simple Logging Facade for Java (SLF4J) is an abstraction of different logging frameworks (eg. log4j, java.util.logging, commons logging etc.). This tutorial describes how to configure SLF4J with log4j as underlying logging framework. To use SLF4J, it is required to include 3 jars SLF4J API (slf4j-api-x.x.x.jar)

Configure GZIP Filter on Jetty 8 for dynamic compression of contents

Jetty provides Gzip Filter to enable dynamic compression of contents like html, javascript, css etc. Just a servlet filter 'org.eclipse.jetty.servlets.GzipFilter' needs to be configured in web.xml to save bandwidth and speed up your website.