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Stover, Michael wrote:
> Berin,
> I'm wondering if you can do anything about the Iaik classes in JMeter.
> Although Ant can deal with compiling around them, most IDE's can't when
> doing internal compiles. I get stuck always getting errors from these files
> whenever I compile anything. Is there anything we can do to change this?
>
> Also, I don't see what good it does anyone to have a binary release where
> none of these files are ever compiled, and thus won't work anyway unless the
> user compiles them. There might be a better place for these files to live
> other than the JMeter project.
>
> Thoughts?
We need to look at the build process for JMeter anyway. It's not very
elegant. However, that said, I do have some ideas.
1) Adopt an unofficial standard for the src directory:
${jmeter.home}/src
/java
/test
/${module}
/proposal
/xdocs
That way, we can move the iaik files into a subdirectory of src/
keeping them separate from the core build. We can have IAIK support
as an optional build, or as a separate jar. Either way is fine by
me.
2) Better classloader magic:
If we have an official directory for extensions to JMeter, it can
make it easier for third parties to add extensions without breaking
JMeter. We would use a URLClassLoader and load all the jars in a
directory into the classloader. This enables the separate IAIK
support jar.
3) Using Avalon Excalibur's CLI package:
It can be used independantly of anything--and it is better to
programatically manage our options and our option syntax than to
rely on the convenience scripts to do it for us.
4) Better build system:
Maven, Krysalis, or just a better ANT build would help. Currently,
JMeter mixes the install /classes directory and the install. That
is confusing. Jmeter should be its own jar with a Main-Class
entry in its manifest. We should have a better definition of an
install, and a directory structure.
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