On 24/02/2016 12:04, sebb wrote:
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.
My points of view for the answers to this question are:
1/ Groovy is a easy/fun/fashion language today, and the next generation
(of developer) would use this (easy|cool) language (vs/with Java) to add
some new behaviors in JMeter tests.
2/ Why Beanshell is including in JMeter and not Groovy? The size of jar
file isn't the best argument in 2016. The version management in JMeter
is easy to do. (probably more easy if JMeter will switching to a maven
or gradle archetype).
So, even if add Groovy jar file in package will bring some negatives
points on JMeter, the benefits are more important, so, I'm very excited
to add Groovy in the JMeter package.
Milamber
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
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