BlazeDS stress test framework

Question

Hi all,
I'm looking for a stress test tool for BlazeDS applications
As far as I understand BlazeDS (not that much) Adobe's tool for Flex DS (LC DS) - http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_Stress_Testing_Framework - might not be appropriate.
Am I right here ?
Does anyone have a direction to go with this ?

Answer 1

Some commercial products are available that have some Flex/BlazeDS support. WebLOAD from RadView has a Flex Add-On that I believe some people have used for testing BlazeDS.
The Flex Stress Testing Framework, recently updated and renamed the Data Services Stress Testing Framework only runs on LCDS 2.6.
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Data_Services_Stress_Testing_Framework
We are thinking about updating the Data Services Stress Testing Framework to run on BlazeDS as well but don't have any definate plans or schedule for this at this point.
For the time being, if none of the commercial products work for you, I think you should be able to use the Data Services Stress Testing Framework to test BlazeDS, but I haven't tested this.
You would deploy the Data Services Stress Testing Framework on LCDS and then in your load test make whichever destination/service you are testing point to your BlazeDS server. For example if you are load testing a messaging destination on your BlazeDS server you would have the messaging destination in your load test use a channel with a url that pointed to your BlazeDS server and not your LCDS server. Setting this up would definately take some understanding of BlazeDS, specifically how channels, destinations, etc. work.
If that sounds daunting, I would look into one of the commercial products. I think commercial products may be limited at this point in terms of how well they emulate our channel/messaging behaviour but I know some vendors have been working on this so that should be getting better.
Hope that helps.