Grizzly web server with static files and gzip enabled

startHttpServer.java

public static HttpServer startHttpServer() {
    HttpServer server = GrizzlyHttpServerFactory.createHttpServer(getApiURL(), new Application());
    final StaticHttpHandler staticHandler = new StaticHttpHandler("src/main/webapp/dist");
    staticHandler.setFileCacheEnabled(false); // change to true in the deploy time
    server.getServerConfiguration().addHttpHandler(staticHandler, "/");

    CompressionConfig compressionConfig
        = server.getListener("grizzly").getCompressionConfig();
    compressionConfig.setCompressionMode(CompressionConfig.CompressionMode.ON); // the mode
    compressionConfig.setCompressionMinSize(1); // the min amount of bytes to compress
    compressionConfig.setCompressableMimeTypes("text/plain", "text/html"); // the mime types to compress

    return server;
}