Solrex Shuffling

JPerf is the GUI frond-end of IPerf, a TCP and UDP bandwidth performance measurement tool which allows the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics.

The official JPerf release (2.0.2 version) has some flaws. First, it mistakenly uses bytes/sec as the unit of UDP bandwidth, which should be bits/sec according to IPerf man-page:

-b, --bandwidth #[KM]
       for  UDP,  bandwidth  to  send  at  in  bits/sec (default 1 Mbit/sec,
       implies -u)

Second, starting it from command line is error prone. The command to start it (jperf.sh) is:

java -classpath jperf.jar:lib/forms-1.1.0.jar:lib/jcommon-1.0.10.jar:lib/jfreechart-1.0.6.jar:lib/swingx-0.9.6.jar net.nlanr.jperf.JPerf

We can see that all jar paths in classpath are relative paths. So if we create a symbol link to the jperf.sh script, e.g. /usr/bin/jperf -> /opt/jperf-2.0.2/jperf.sh. Then calling /usr/bin/jperf will result in some errors like:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/nlanr/jperf/JPerf
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: net.nlanr.jperf.JPerf
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)
Could not find the main class: net.nlanr.jperf.JPerf. Program will exit.

This error can be fixed by resolving the real path of the symbol link, as I reported.

However, a better way to solve this problem is to pack all libs JPerf needed(i.e. forms*.jar, jcommon*.jar, jfreechart*.jar, swingx*.jar) to a single jar, and add a proper "Manifest". Then we will be able to start JPerf with a much simpler command:

java -jar jperf.jar

And finally, I gave a try to solve the above 2 flaws and put my work (deb/jar/src packets) on my site. You can find them here .