Performance Testing a Multiuser Web Application with JMeter and Maven

When there is the need to create load tests or performance tests for an application, Apache JMeter is a handy tool and set up with ease. In the following short tutorial I’d like to demonstrate how to configure JMeter to log into a Java EE web application with multiple users specified in a CSV file, how to generate some basic reports and how to integrate JMeter into a mavenized build using the JMeter Maven Plugin. ...

January 18, 2015 · 7 min · 1327 words · Micha Kops

Wiring made easy using OSGi Blueprint and Apache Karaf

The OSGi Blueprint Container specification allows us to use dependency injection in our OSGi environment, declarative import and export of OSGi services, registering lifecycle listeners and wiring dependencies into our services with a few lines of XML code. In the following tutorial we’re first building an OSGi bundle classical style and afterwards take a trip into the advantages of the Blueprint specification. Our OSGi container of choice here will be Apache Karaf a lightweight container with a lot of nice features and – of course – blueprint enabled… ...

April 16, 2012 · 9 min · 1705 words · Micha Kops