Basic Setup for Building and Running the performance test case ============================================== As described in the installation notes, extract the cxf binary distribution archive into an installation directory under the root drive. This creates the sub-directory build, which includes all of the product directories. 1. Setup the build environment To build and run the performance test case , you must install the J2SE Development Kit (JDK) 5.0 or later. The performance test cases in the /bin folder under each test require Apache Ant, V1.6 or later. The CXF_HOME system variable needs to be set to the cxf binary install directory. 2. Build the performance test case There are two types of test case in the performance test case directory. The base directory provide a simple testcase base class for the client to calculate the server response time and throughput. There you should build the base directory first, and then build the other directory files. cd base ant cd ../soap_http_doc_lit (the best one, but /basic_type, /complex_type also available) ant 3. To run the performance tests You can cd to soap_http_doc_lit/bin to run the test run_server and run_server.bat just startup the server run_client and run_client.bat can take these argument: -Operation to invoke the wsdl defined operation -BasedOn Time setup the invoking count with time -Amount define the invoke times , if based on time it means second -PacketSize define the packet size which client send to server -Threads define the number of threads to run the perform test For soap_http_doc_lit, can be a range or comma separated list to run multiple time with different thread counts. For example: -Threads 1-4,6,8,10 -WSDL wsdl location (defaults to the perf.wsdl) -BuildFile location of alternative build.xml file (mostly for running clients/servers) You can alternatively run them directly using the build.xml file in each test subdirectory (view the contents of the run_xxx(.bat) files for the format of those calls--they call the Ant build file directly.)