Example YUI Compressor Implementation for Websphere Commerce

This is an example YUI compressor implementation for Websphere Commerce, however the implementation is very basic and can be used anywhere.

• http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor/

The Details

ant.properties

You will need your own ant properties. This implementation expects:

• prop.js.src.dir= - The path to your source directory containing the javascript
• prop.jar.yui_compress=yuicompressor-2.4.8pre.jar - The YUI compression library

How it works

The source directory given will be looped, each file will be minified. Each file will be given name -min.js.

Example JSTLEnvironmentSetup.jspf

There is an included JSTLEnvironmentSetup.jspf that demonstrates how you can pass a URL parameter to enable usage of the minified scripts during development.

Comments from JSTLEnvironmentSetup

• Example page include:

<script language="javascript" src="<c:out value="${jsSearchURI}"/>" ></script>

• Parameter and environment configuration needs to be in place to enable / disable minification as needed
• See the JSTLEnvironmentSetup for more details on the setup

Installation

You will need to ensure you have the ant-contrib libraries installed in your ant lib directory. Otherwise, you can just put this project in your eclipse workspace, or just checkout to the filesystem and run with ant.

Ant Targets

• clean.js.loop - Will delete the min files in the source directory
• compress.js.loop - Will minify all the files in the source directory

Embedding into ongoing build / deployment process

The normal implementation for WC version 7+ is WCBD. You'll want to add this process at the point when your static files are synced to the web server. Look for in wcbd-build-common.xml of your wcbd files.