| 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/jmeter). | |
| Requirements | |
| ------------ | |
| The following requirements exist for running Apache JMeter: | |
| o Java Interpreter: | |
| A fully compliant Java 1.3 Runtime Environment is required (a Java 1.4 | |
| Runtime Environment is recomended) for Apache JMeter to execute. | |
| o Optional jars: | |
| Some jars are not included with JMeter. | |
| If required, these should be downloaded and placed in the lib directory | |
| BeanShell (bsh.jar) - www.beanshell.org | |
| JavaMail (activation.jar, mail.jar) - java.sun.com | |
| JMS (jms.jar) - java.sun.com | |
| 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 | |
| ------------------------- | |
| Note that spaces in directory names can cause problems. | |
| - Release builds | |
| Unpack the binary archive into a suitable directory structure. | |
| - Nightly builds | |
| Unpack BOTH the _bin and _lib archives into the SAME directory structure | |
| Running JMeter | |
| -------------- | |
| Change to the bin directory and run the jmeter (Un*x) or jmeter.bat (Windows) file. | |
| For Windows, there are also some other scripts: | |
| jmeter-n.bat - drop a JMX file on this and it will run it as a non-GUI test | |
| jmeter-t.bat - drop a JMX file on this and it will open the file for running a GUI test | |
| Documentation | |
| ------------- | |
| 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. | |
| Build instructions | |
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| - Release builds | |
| Unpack both the binary and source archives into the same directory structure | |
| - Nightly builds | |
| Unpack the _src and _lib archives into the same directory structure | |
| In both cases, any optional jars (see above) can be placed in either lib or lib/opt. | |
| Jars in lib/opt will be used for building JMeter, but won't be used at run-time. | |
| [This is useful for testing what happens if the optional jars are not downloaded | |
| by other JMeter users]. | |
| JMeter is built using Ant. | |
| Change to the top-level directory and issue the command: | |
| ant | |
| This will compile the application and enable you to run jmeter from the bin | |
| directory. | |
| Licensing and legal issues | |
| -------------------------- | |
| For legal and licensing issues, please look the files: | |
| LICENSE | |
| NOTICE | |
| lib/LICENSE* | |
| Thanks for using Apache JMeter. |