Suggestions for Stress Testing BlazeDS

Question

We are removing our XSL-> HTML solution annd replacing it with a Flex UI for our userbase. One of the concerns is that the BlazeDS (amf endpoint, so streaming or polling) won't be able to handle the load as well as the EJB -> XML -> XSLT -> HTML stack. My theory is that it should perform better, but I need a way to statistically prove this.

Are there any suggestions for a product and/or method for stress-testing BlazeDS? Adobe has a stress test framework for LCDS, but it says it is not compatible with BlazeDS. I think that it might be simple to test given that I am not planning on using it as a messeging solution right now, and simple want it as an endpoint for RemoteObject connections.

Answer 1

I would look at using JMeter to run some automated tests against the backend:

http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/

You should be able to write a test against the backend which takes some Java objects and uses the API available in Blaze to encode them in AMF and set the result as the body of the HTTP request.

Answer 2

Rob de Boer has a good article on implementing such an approach here http://blog.jteam.nl/2009/07/14/performance-testing-a-flex-blazeds-application/