Installing Groovy engine in Apache Jmeter

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Introduction to Bean Scripting Framework (BSF)

• Bean Scripting Framework (BSF) is a set of Java classes which supports following languages

within Java applications and to access Java methods and objects.

• Javascript (using Rhino ECMAScript, from the Mozilla project)

• NetRexx (an extension of the IBM REXX scripting language in Java)

• Commons JEXL

• Python (using Jython)

• Tcl (using Jacl)

• XSLT Stylesheets (as a component of Apache XML project's Xalan and Xerces)

• In addition, the following languages are supported with their own BSF engines:

• Java (using BeanShell, from the BeanShell project)

• Groovy

• Groovy Monkey

• JLog (PROLOG implemented in Java)

• JRuby

• JudoScript

• ObjectScript

• ooRexx (Open Object Rexx), using BSF4ooRexx.

Introduction to Bean Scripting Framework (BSF)

• BSF can be downloaded from http://

commons.apache.org/proper/commons-bsf/download_bsf.cgi

• In this presentation, we will see how to install Groovy engine within Jmeter.

Installing Groovy Engine in Apache JMeter

Installing Groovy in Apache Jmeter – Step 1

• Download latest version of Groovy in http://groovy.codehaus.org/

Installing Groovy in Apache Jmeter – Step 2

• Extract the Groovy zip file

• Copy the *.jar files from GROOVY_HOME/lib/

Installing Groovy in Apache Jmeter – Step 3

• Paste the Groovy jar files to  JMETER_HOME/lib/ext/

• Restart JMeter.

Installing Groovy in Apache Jmeter – Step 4

• Add JSR223 Sampler to your test plan

• You could see groovy in the scripting language drop down list box

Scripting in Groovy

• Add below snippet to your JSR 223 Sampler

• x = new java.util.Date()

• println x

Scripting in Groovy

• When you execute the script, you will get below output in your command prompt.

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