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as we´re into bundling Wicket/JQuery-frontend components lately, we needed a way of automatically minimizing JavaScript on deployment.
luckily, there is an excellent mojo out there : http://alchim.sourceforge.net/yuicompressor-maven-plugin

the nice thing is, it does not only minify but also check and obfuscate, which turned out to be very handy!

if you´re bundling javascript (or even css, which it minimizes as well), you want to give it a try. it is as easy as adding

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      <plugin>
        <groupid>net.sf.alchim</groupid>
        <artifactid>yuicompressor-maven-plugin</artifactid>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <goals>
              <goal>compress</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>        
      </plugin>

NEAT++ !