
Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook

To enable our performance testing, we'll install the open source tool Apache JMeter.
You'll need to install Java JDK Version 6 or higher on a machine to follow this recipe.
Follow these steps to complete the installation of Apache JMeter:
Navigate to http://jmeter.apache.org/download_jmeter.cgi, and select the latest binary version for download. If you're on Windows, it will be easier to proceed with the ZIP file.
The next step will assume that you've selected the ZIP version, or that you know what you're doing with the tar.gz
file. Unzip the downloaded file. On Windows, you can right-click and select Extract All; on Linux, you can use the unzip
or gunzip
commands.
Place the extracted contents in a suitable location. The rest of the recipe will use the location C:\performance-testing\apache-jmeter-2.8
.
Within the bin
directory, run jmeterw.cmd
on Windows, or jmeter.sh
on Linux (if using the ZIP bundle, remember to set the file as executable first...