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13. Appendix A: Setting Up JMeter

Sai Matam and Jagdeep Jain2

(1)Pleasonton, California, USA

(2)Dewas, Madhya Pradesh, India

In the following sections we describe the installation of Java Development Kit (JDK) and JMeter. We use the JMeter executable to start JMeter.

Note

Readers who are already familiar with JMeter setup can start directly with the first chapter.

MacOSX

The following section explains how to install Java and JMeter on MacOSX. If you are using Windows or Linux, skip to the appropriate section.

Download JDK

Download the Java Development Kit (JDK) from Oracle’s web site.1

JMeter requires Java Runtime Environment ...

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