FAQ

• What is the meaning of "Janissary"?
• What does Janissary do?
• Why do I need Janissary?
• Where can I find more information about Janissary?
• Is there a working example for Janissary?
• I want to volunteer to help building Janissary, what can I do?

Janissary, also spelled JANIZARY, from Turkish YENICERI (New Soldier, or Troop), member of an elite corps in the standing army of the Ottoman Empire from the late 14th century to 1826. Highly respected for their military powers in the 15th and 16th centuries, the Janissaries became a powerful political force within the Ottoman state. For more historical information please visit http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Janissary

Janissary is a simple load and performance testing tool for web sites. Written in Java language as a command line tool, Janissary is primarily aimed for developers and site administrators use. Depending on its configuration, Janissary creates concurrent or non-concurrent HTTP requests and reports the status and response time for those requests.

If you have to do a quick performance test on your website, Janissary is very easy to use. It immediately shows you what pages are working fast or slow. Janissary doesn't pinpoint where the bottleneck if you have a multi-tiered web application but help you see the problem spots.

You might also find Janissary useful to test your web site functionality since HTTP requests can be customized easily by Janissary.

Currently this web site is the only resource for Janissary. Please check user guide for further information on Janissary. If you can't find what you are looking for, Janissary has a mailing list for users or you can send an email to janissary@yalimaytul.com.

Yes. You can download a fully functional example from Janissary distribution at sourceforge.net

Make sure you read Developer's Guide to Janissary first and please visit volunteers page for more information.