At 03:01 AM 30/11/01, you wrote (and I edited)
> >http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/index.html > > >matt >I downloaded this and was immediately struck at how uselessly useful >this tool is. It's obviously aimed at programmers, which I am not. I >build systems and environments, I don't know Java. > >Wouldn't it be nice if just ONCE someone would write a utility that >doesn't assume you're a damn programmer? When I went through college C >and Pascal were big thing. I don't know beans about Java (no pun >intended). This strikes me a little like complaining that cars are useless because you don't know how to drive... Wouldn't it be nice if just ONCE some car manufacturer made a car that didn't assume you knew how to drive? >Now, will someone please point me to something that isn't documented in >what amounts to hieroglyphics to non-programmers? More seriously, that's a valid complaint - though one that perhaps misses the mark. These are open-source volunteer run projects - and the one thing that we programmers seem to hate more than anything else is documenting... Which is where you could be of real use... Work out how to use JMeter, then submit some documentation for non-programmers. Suggest improvements. Perhaps learn a little java and help implement them. Yes, it's time-consuming, and you may not have that much available. But don't just complain that something FREE is useless. BTW, I seem to recall a Dr. Dobbs article on web benchmarking - you might want to search at their site to find it. But (and it's a big "but") the applications were not free - or even cheap. Jim -- * Jim Cheesman * Trabajo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (34)(91) 724 9200 x 2360 If there's one thing I can't stand, it's intolerance. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
