| A P A C H E J M E T E R | |
| What is it? | |
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| Apache JMeter is a 100% pure Java application designed to test | |
| and measure performance. It may be used | |
| as a highly portable server benchmark as well as multiclient | |
| load generator. | |
| The Latest Version | |
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| Details of the latest version can be found on the Java Apache | |
| Project web site (http://jakarta.apache.org). | |
| Requirements | |
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| The following requirements exist for installing Apache JMeter: | |
| o Java Interpreter: | |
| ***Currently in this Beta release a 1.2 runtime is required, | |
| A fully compliant Java 1.1 Runtime Environment is required for | |
| Apache JMeter to execute. Since Apache JMeter uses _only_ standard | |
| Java APIs (java.*), please, do not file in a bug report if your | |
| JRE fails to execute Apache JMeter because a class implementation | |
| is missing, or not fully compliant. | |
| o Java JFC (Swing components): | |
| These GUI extentions are required for proper functioning. | |
| Due to incompatibility in the package names, the precompiled version | |
| works only with Swing placed under the packages "javax.swing.*" while | |
| other placing are not supported because considered non-standard. | |
| o SAX 1.0 Compliant Parser [OPTIONAL]: | |
| A Java SAX 1.0 Parser is required to restore HTTPSamples You can save | |
| samples without the parser but you will not be able to restore them. | |
| you can specify the parser class in the xml.parser property in | |
| jmeter.properties | |
| o Java Compiler [OPTIONAL]: | |
| A Java compiler is not needed since the distribution includes a | |
| precompiled java binary archive. Note that a compiler is required | |
| if you plan to build plugin classes for Apache JMeter. | |
| Installation Instructions and Documentation | |
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| The documentation available as of the date of this release is | |
| also included, in HTML format, in the docs/ directory, and it may | |
| be browsed starting from the file called index.html. | |
| If you have downloaded a nightly build, please cd to the jakarta-jmeter | |
| directory and type "./build.sh" (Unix/Linux) or "build" (Windows). This | |
| should compile the application and enable you to run jmeter from the /bin | |
| directory. | |
| NOTES for 1.7.1 | |
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| JDBC testing is working correctly in this version. | |
| Recording HTTP sampes via the proxy server has been improved. It is more robust. | |
| The HTML Link Parser has been improved to be more forgiving. | |
| Licensing and legal issues | |
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| For legal and licensing issues, please look in the legal section of | |
| the documentation. | |
| Thanks for using Apache JMeter. | |