GZip Library for J2ME

The J2ME app frequently retrieves a bulk of data (delimited text) from the server. This works fine, except that this incurs transfer cost ($/byte transferred) and time (sec/byte transferred). Overtime, it can be really expensive. The solution could be

- compress the data at the server side,
- transfer it compressed (to the client/phone), and
- decompress it

Problems: java.util.jar and java.util.zip just aren't available on J2ME platform.

Solution: Title of this post.

TinyLine GZIPInputStream is a pure J2ME implementation of the Java 2 java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream class that uses the same API. The size of the class in the JAR format is about 6K.

Kudos and Many Thanks to TinyLine.

[Resource-Type: Library; Category: Java/J2ME; XRating: 5]
PS: Please do share any other data compression libraries commercial/non-commercial in the comments section. Thank You.