Server socket stress test?

Question

We have a server socket running.  We have simple client programme as below. We would like to do a stress test on our server socket by running the codes below. How can we achieve a parallel effect with the following codes? Normally what limitation will the socket application have e.g. number of socket per minute etc?
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public class stress1 extends Thread {
public static void main(String[] argv) {
try {
   for (int i = 0; i < 5000; i++) {
        Socket socket = new Socket("localhost", 18000);
        PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(socket.getOutputStream(), true);
        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream()));
        out.println("data to my server ");
        System.out.println(in.readLine() + i);
             out.close();
        in.close();
        socket.close();
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
[/code]

Answer 1

Of course you can.  JMeter is a testing tool.  You can use it for functionality tests, stress/load tests, etc.  And those test cases can be completely customized especially since you can write JUnit tests and use those for the functionality and simply let the framework handle the load portion of it (i.e. how often, for how long).