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Building JMeter plug-in with Eclipse

Targetted to Eclipse 3.1 and JMeter 2.1 trunk version.

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• Let Eclipse internal compiler handle the building of JMeter
• Source build paths:
• src/protocol/ftp
• test/src
• src/protocol/http
• src/protocol/java
• src/protocol/jdbc
• src/protocol/tcp
• src/monitor/components
• src/monitor/model
• src/components
• src/core
• src/examples
• src/functions
• src/htmlparser
• src/jorphan
• src/junit
• src/reports
  • Exclude following files from building
    • They have missing dependencies and are related to HTTP security which you are not probably interested in
    • org/apache/jmeter/util/JsseSSLManager.java
    • org/apache/jmeter/util/keystore/DefaultKeyStore.java
    • org/apache/jmeter/util/keystore/PKCS12KeyStore.java
  • Add libraries
    • All jar files under lib/ folder
    • There is one missing dependency which causes start-up failure with message Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/avalon/excalibur/i18n/ResourceManager if you try to configure logger. Get the jar file from http://mirrors.bevc.net/apache/excalibur/excalibur-i18n/binaries/ and place it to lib/
  • Now Eclipse should build JMeter without errors (stop icons in source tree)
    

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• Create a new Java project
• Add jmeter-trunk to project dependencies
• Create bin/ and src/ folders
• Create "jmeter.properties" in the bin/
  • This defines where JMeter internal class loader looks for classes
  • It should look like this
    

search_paths=../../jmeter-trunk/bin/protocol/ftp; \
			 ../../jmeter-trunk/bin/protocol/http; \
			 ../../jmeter-trunk/bin/protocol/java; \
			 ../../jmeter-trunk/bin/protocol/jdbc; \
			 ../../jmeter-trunk/bin/protocol/ldap; \
			 ../../jmeter-trunk/bin/protocol/tcp; \
			 ../../jmeter-trunk/bin/components; \
			 ../../jmeter-trunk/bin/core; \
			 ../../jmeter-trunk/bin/default; \
			 ../../jmeter-trunk/bin/functions; \
			 ../../jmeter-trunk/bin/htmlparser; \
			 ../../jmeter-trunk/bin/jorphan \
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4. Setting up a custom Jakarta JMeter launcher

• Set working directory to bin/ in your project
• Copy lib/ from jmeter-trunk to your plug-in project root
  

5. Also, you might want to modify class