The Grinder

Version 2.8.5 built on October 27 2002

Copyright (C) 2000 Paco Gómez
Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002 Philip Aston

The Grinder is a pure Java load-testing framework that is freely available under a BSD style open-source license. It was originally developed for the book Professional Java 2 Enterprise Edition with BEA WebLogic Server by Paco Gómez and Peter Zadrozny.

Philip Aston took ownership of the code and reworked it to create The Grinder 2. Philip continues to enhance and maintain The Grinder.

The Grinder's home page is http://grinder.sourceforge.net/.

Support

Requests for help should be sent to grinder-use@lists.sourceforge.net.

Please contribute bug fixes and enhancements to grinder-development@lists.sourceforge.net.

License

Additional contributions have been made by individuals listed in the AUTHORS file supplied with this distribution. Each individual's claim to copyright is asserted in the files to which they contributed.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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The Grinder includes Ronald Tschalär's HTTPClient library (http://www.innovation.ch/java/HTTPClient/index.html). The HTTPClient library is distributed under the GNU Lesser Public License. Under the term 6 of the GNU Lesser Public License, The Grinder is a "work that uses the Library". See doc/HTTPClient-license.txt for details of the GNU Lesser Public License.

The Grinder includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/), specifically the Jakarta ORO regular expression library. See doc/Jakarta-ORO-license.txt for license details.