https://github.com/galan/packtag

A JSP Taglib for delivering minified, combined and gzip-compressed resources (JavaScript and CSS).
https://github.com/galan/packtag

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A JSP Taglib for delivering minified, combined and gzip-compressed resources (JavaScript and CSS).

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/galan/packtag
• Owner: galan
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2013-08-25T07:58:49.000Z (almost 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-01-07T15:03:30.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-13T02:08:56.581Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: compression, css, java, javascript, jsp-taglib, minification, minify, taglib
• Language: Java
• Size: 26.7 MB
• Stars: 25
• Watchers: 7
• Forks: 14
• Open Issues: 4
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  • Readme: README.md

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# pack:tag

A JSP Taglib for delivering minified, combined and gzip-compressed resources (JavaScript and CSS).

# Usage

To use the taglib in a JSP, you have to declare it first:

    <%@ taglib uri="https://github.com/d8bitr/packtag" prefix="pack" %>

(You can still use the old uri 'http://packtag.sf.net' for backward compatibility)

Now you can easily pack JavaScript by using the following tag:

    

Accordingly for Cascading Style Sheets:

    

You can enable and disable each tag individually by setting the attribute enabled to false, e.g.:

    

You can combine resources simply by listing them up:

    

      /js/myJavaScriptFile.js

      /js/mySecondJavaScriptFile.js

    

That's it.

If you want to deepen your knowledge and learn about advanced techniques, I suggest reading "[pack:tag - a packed guide to website performance optimization](https://github.com/galan/packtag/raw/master/documentation/packtag%20-%20a%20packed%20guide%20to%20website%20performance%20optimization.pdf)".

# Integration

1. Add the maven dependency to your project:

        

            de.galan.packtag

            packtag-core

            4.0.0

        

2. Copy the `` and `` from the [web.xml](https://github.com/galan/packtag/blob/master/packtag-testsite/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml) into your

/WEB-INF/web.xml

# Note

pack:tag is still supported, and still encouraged to be used if it makes sense for your project. But, no further development beyond bug fixes is expected. pack:tag is over 8 years old, and has been stable since then. Thank you to the community for your support of this project over the last years.