Thanks, Jerome! That seems to have worked. For the benefit of future readers, the code looks like:
final JaxRsApplication app = new JaxRsApplication(server.getContext().createChildContext()); EncoderService encoderService = new EncoderService(); encoderService.setEnabled(true); app.setEncoderService(encoderService); It all seems mysterious because of lack of documentation, but what this encoder service does is look up if a certain media type (application/json in my case) can be encoded and then selects the "best" encoding according to some internal logic. That best encoding ends up being gzip. ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2949935
