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Configuring jawr to use YUI compressor instead of JSMinifier for minifying js files

Jawr  is the framework that is developed to make the versioning, compression, minifying css, js files  more stream lined. It can also be integrated with smartsprites and people can write their custom handlers for their application needs. I am not here to explain about various features supported by jawr. Please go to the link mentioned above for more details. JSMin is the default post processor used by jawr, it is too old, does not understand some semantics and bothers you throwing errors during minifying process, or the minified version has some bugs which are not present if you set debug mode to true. So the other option is YUI Compressor,  Jawr identifies which post processor to use based on  jawr.js.bundle.factory.bundlepostprocessors property in jawr.properties it is defaulted to JSMin if none is specified. We can set the property to YUI to notify jawr to use YUI compressor instead. Download YUI Compressor from  http://yuilibrary.com/download/builder/  please use latest versio