Shanga is a compression library programmed in Java.
Shanga is based on Zopfli Compression Algorithm, see: https://code.google.com/p/zopfli/
To compress data create instance of Shanga class and invoke Shanga.compress. Shanga.compress is synchronized. Shanga extensively preallocate memory to avoid in-flight GC. The amount of memory is about 48 x master block size.
Shanga.compress supports deflate, gzip and zlib output format with a parameter.
This library can only compress, not decompress. Existing zlib or deflate libraries can decompress the data.
JAR contains main class, and could be used as a standalone application.
To build the binary, use "ant".
Shanga was created by Eugene Klyuchnikov, based on Zopfli Compression Algorithm by Lode Vandevenne and Jyrki Alakuijala.