API Use Case: Apache JMeter

[Ben Evans]

Hi,

I'm working on a project that makes heavy use of Apache JMeter. This
doesn't really provide away of scripting it using Java, but it does
have Beanshell as an option.

Currently, I'm having a terrible time, writing Java inside an IDE, and
c&p'ing the code as Beanshell into JMeter.

It occurs to me that this would be much more pleasant with JShell
available inside JMeter.

Is it the intention to expose enough of the API to allow these sort of
use cases? If so, JMeter integration might be a good second use case.
I'd certainly be interested in helping with such a project (although I
do not have much time until Jan 2016).

>From the looks of what's required for integration, I think we'd just
need to set up a context that predefined the special variables that
JMeter provides as the primary interface. Possibly a 2-panel setup
with a REPL and the main script window.

Thanks,

Ben