Am really starting to enjoy the power and portability of using Java in my load testing efforts, especially when the environments in which you work are often limited in terms of tool sets you’re allowed to use. For example the current Solaris environment I work in doesn’t have a C compiler native to the OS, so I am automatically limited in the amount of Perl code I can write, as I am lacking more powerful modules (that need to be compiled). Enter Java; it already comes installed and for the types of mid range services I’m working on (MQ, JMS etc) has loads of great APIs you can incorporate into your own custom test harnesses.
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