JMeter and SLAMD for load test's in plain Java

This is article about my experience developing simple load (performance) test's for our app. 2 most famous tools were analysed: SLAMD and JMeter.

Criteria	SLAMD	Jmeter	Comments
Parameters	+	+	Ability of systems to pass parameters to Java Jobs
Distributes support	Web	Lan	How client/server communication is organized
GUI	Web	Java(bugged, see explanations)	Jmeter GUI haven't allowed my custom classes to execute. Command line worked perfectly fine
Test Plan support	No	Yes	Jmeter has more abilities for test cases creation
Test Data support	Normall	Advanced	Jmeter: CSV file native support, advanced parameters.
Documented	Good	Norm
Sources	Available	Available
Main Goal	LDAP	Web
Reporting	Advanced	Normall	SLAMD has more reporting facilities than Jmeter (Timers, Counters, internal stuff).
Reporting formats	plain, HTML, PDF	Visual, XML.
Test plan format	server internal	Xml	We can see Jmeter test plan as xml and customise it.