On 17 October 2015 at 14:56, Philippe Mouawad <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > Since Groovy should soon be an Apache Project, what about distributing it > in Apache JMeter ?
Let's wait until that happens, and then revisit the idea. > This would allow users to have OOTB instead of having to make an additional > installation step. > > Groovy would become the Beanshell Successor for JMeter combined with JSR223 > as it's the better one in terms of performance. > > > There are many drawbacks in not embedding it and making new users or non > expert users think that Beanshell is the favorite JMeter Extension Language: > - Beanshell is kind of attic library now Not true. > - It does not support Java6 Syntaxes, I see a lot of Questions on > Stackoverflow where users face issues using Java6 syntax (Generics). We can > document this more but wouldn't it be better to have a ready to use > solution compatible with Java 7 now ? > - As you know , Groovy + Compilation Cache Key outperforms in performances > other languages by a factor of 10 and more > - Groovy is really powerful with nice syntax sugar and a huge number of APIs > > > Regards > Philippe M. > @philmdot
