[Springframework-developer] Additional packages

[Rod J. <rod...@in...>]

Guys,

I've been doing some profiling for work and using the load testing package I
published with the book. (I actually improved it in December.)

It's obviously not something that is a key part of Spring, but it's worth
having outside the src directory, because it is a whole lot simpler and
easier to configure than Grinder and JMeter. (Of course it's configured
using JavaBeans--what else!)

It's also useful for some critical performance benchmarks for Spring. We can
run these to ensure that changes don't reduce performance significantly.

Things such as:

- AOP functionality (I've got a test for this already)
- BeanFactory functionality
- JDBC (not sure how to test)

Of course performance testing isn't an exact science, but it could still be
useful.

So I'm planning to check in the load tester and critical performance tests
in a /load tree in the main module. Any better ideas?

Also, what's the feeling on new module? I'm inclined to favour it. I've just
made some changes to AOP in the old module.

Regards,
Rod