I'm looking at building a custom module outside of the server code and had questions:

First - I noticed when a module is built with the server code the JSP files are pre-compiled and the html is compressed. I'm following the docs at: https://www.labkey.org/wiki/home/Documentation/page.view?name=moduleDirectoryStructures but I don't see mention of pre-compilation or compressing. Are these necessary steps?

Second - Once I have a java module in the structure as recommended I should just be able to drop it in the externalModules dir. Correct?

Thanks - Micah