About JMeter

JMeter is an open source performance testing tool which supports different types of protocols and technologies. It is initially developed in NON-GUI mode to do performance testing on the Apache JServer (Apache Tomcat) and later enhanced to GUI mode which is used to do performance testing with a graphical interface using the swing API interface. The developed application was enabled to run on different types of environment like Windows, UNIX, Linux and Mac OS.

List of protocols that JMeter supports

·         Web - HTTP, HTTPS

·         Web Services: SOAP / XML – RPC

·         FTP

·         Database via JDBC

·         LDAC

·         Message-oriented middleware (MOM) via JMS

·         Mail - SMTP(S), POP3(S) and IMAP(S)

·         MongoDB (NoSQL)

·         Native commands or shell scripts

·         TCP