Configure Apache JMeter for load testing

When compiling, packaging, and testing there is no need to have JMeter installed. However, if you're releasing new versions and need to perform Maven life cycles "install", "deploy", "site" etc. you must currently have JMeter installed and configured locally. To do this, follow these steps:

• Download Apache JMeter from http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/ and install into a local folder, $jmeter_home
• Open modules/seal/profiles.xml and edit <jmeter.root> to match $jmeter_home

You're good to go.

The Maven build environment will run performance tests as part of the integration-test phase, i.e. whenever you execute a life cycle phase which includes this step. The results of performance testing can be seen under target/*.jsl and via target/site/jmeter/index.html, which can be reached from the seal autogenerated site.