Let's be clear what this discussion is about. JMeter already supports Groovy. It's not a question of whether Groovy is a good scripting language.
The question is whether or not to bundle Groovy with JMeter. The only advantage I can see is that JMeter users don't have to download Groovy in order to use it. The disadvantages are: - additional download size, even if Groovy is not needed - users will still have to download Groovy if there is a new version and JMeter has not yet been updated. It would be useful to know: - what jars are needed? - how large are they? An alternative approach would be to provide a script to download Groovy. This would solve both the disadvantages I mention. We could even perhaps provide a template to download Groovy using JMeter. This could be a useful sample for people to try. On 23 February 2016 at 09:54, Milamber <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think that is a very good idea to add Groovy to JMeter. > > > On 22/02/2016 19:05, Philippe Mouawad wrote: >> >> Hello, >> +1 for integration as of me. >> Reasons: >> - Make user experience as simple as possible (no need to bundle additional >> libraries and manage configuration >> -jsr223+groovy is the most performing option compared to beanshell >> - as of the scripting I had to do, I always had at some step to script and >> used this combination >> - beanshell does not support java6/7/8 sugar syntax >> - groovy is an easy scripting language with the full power of java + a lot >> of additional features for xml, json manipulation, jmx ... >> - Groovy is now Apache :) >> >> >> >> >> Regards >> >> On Monday, February 22, 2016, Pascal Schumacher <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> when this was last discussed, it was decided to wait till there is >>> official Apache release (outside of Apache Incubator) of Groovy. Groovy >>> 2.4.6 is the first release as a top level project and it was just >>> released: >>> >>> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/groovy-users/201602.mbox/%3CCADQzvmnMENGU17_%3D9-_%3DnPDn9Ob3QsXC9iJHChT_zAWo0-CHJg%40mail.gmail.com%3E >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Pascal >>> >> >
