[infinispan-dev] RadarGun 1.1.0.Final released

[Radim Vansa]

Hi all,

it has been a long time since last release of RadarGun. We have been 
using it intensively and developed many new features - 1.0.0 had 7,340 
lines of Java code, 1.1.0 has 32,978 lines. RadarGun has become 
multi-purpose tool, used for checking both performance and functionality 
of caches under stress.

During 1.1.0 development, most parts of code changed beyond the beyonds, 
but we tried to keep the old configuration compatible. However, the 
design started to be rather limiting, and therefore, we have decided to 
make the last release for 1.1.0 and move on to RadarGun 2.0.0. In 1.1.x 
branch we will provide bugfixes, but all new features should go to 2.0.0.

Some decoys for features expected for RadarGun 2.0.0:

* non-homogenous clusters: client/server setups, cooperation of 
different versions of products, or easy setup of cross-site deployment 
with different configurations
* abstracting from cache wrapper: you will be able to use RadarGun for 
more than just caches without any hacks
** current CacheWrapper interface will be designed to match JSR-107 
javax.cache.Cache rather than java.util.Map
* pluggable reporting: statistics will be directly multiplexed to 
configured reporters (again, without cheating on directories), reporters 
will provide the output formatted as CSV, HTML or even can deploy the 
results to external repository
* merging local and distributed benchmark -> master + single slave 
within one JVM
* better property parsing: evaluation of expressions, property 
replacement executed on slaves

I hope you will like it! And enjoy 1.1.0.Final release now.

Radim

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