Building JMeter plug-in with Eclipse

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Targetted to Eclipse 3.1 and JMeter 2.1 trunk version. JMeter isn't designed to be edited and build from Eclipse IDE (JMeter uses Ant build file and complex path/jar structure with optional dependencies), so some work has to be done before we get wheels running.

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• Set working directory to bin/ in your project
  • JMeter is hard coded to look up jmeter.properties in the launch folder
  • E.g. ${workspace_loc:SIPPerformanceStresser/bin}
• Copy lib/ from jmeter-trunk to your plug-in project root
  • JMeter is hard coded to look up jars from ../lib
• Main class: org.apache.jmeter.NewDriver
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Creating components

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JMeter 2.x uses its internal [TestBean]-framework for adding new components. For more information, see \[:DeveloperManual/TestBeanTutorial:Tutorial - Making a JMeter TestBean\], \[http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/jakarta/jmeter/trunk/xdocs/extending/jmeter_tutorial.pdf?view=log&pathrev=325123 this PDF\] and JMeter source code

For each component you need

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If widget labels are not read from resouces file, your the properties file of your component has a wrong filename

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