Jmeter, a powerful performance testing tool from the Apache Jakarta project, can be used to simulate a heavy load on a server, network or object .This helps to test the strength or to analyze overall performance of the system under different load conditions.

It has a Full multithreading framework which allows concurrent sampling by many threads and simultaneous sampling of different functions by separate thread groups. It can test servers eg. Web Server – HTTP, HTTPS, Web Services – SOAP, JUnits, Database via JDBC. Jmeter based tests can be integrated into scheduled builds using build tool like Apache Ant.
JMeter and Flex BlazeDS Application Performance Testing can be used in a scenario where the front end is developed using flex, the flex remote objects communicate in the flex AMF format. We can leverage JMeter for such scenario where an AMF message can ride over http and a web application can be tested for performance testing and load testing. Take away for the audience :-
Examples which illustrate how to use Jmeter in load testing and automation testing.