There is a proposal for JMeter to require at least Java 1.4.
This gives the opportunity to make some changes and improvements.
Regular Expressions
ORO works well - is there any point moving to java regular expressions?
Miscellaneous features
Remove work-rounds for the following:
- Boolean.toString
- Boolean.valueOf(boolean)
- String.replaceAll, String.split, String.replace
- URLDecoder / URLEncoder
Allow the use of the following:
- Runtime.getRuntime().maxMemory(); (Memory Benchmark class)
Additional Exceptions
- HTTPSampler and TCPClient could make use of more that just IOException
Chained Exceptions
- could remove/simplify JMeter and HTMLParse error/exception classes
- use getCause() to improve logging information
Probably not worth using
- LINE_END instead of EAST etc. This only makes sense if JMeter is updated to support BIDI.