Compression API in EJB

[SAMINATHAN]

Hi all       I would like to know whether compression of object in EJB is allowed or not.Though am not directly  going to use inside the bean.          For example i have the follwoing architecture   Client -----> SLSB -----> EB -----DAO -----DB     |                                          |     |                                          |      |--------------------->VALUE OBJECT      on Form load my ejbSelect will return me the value object.Since in my case it is a BMP my DAO's select method will return me the value object and i want to compress that  before sending to  entity --- Session and in the client code i will decompress and use it.Note am not doing any compression in my bean.   And by doing this , will  my performance and response time improve?   Is there any  known or unknown implication there in this?   Thanks and Regards Saminathan.