I have worked with Jmeter for Perfromance testing. And had some hands on Experience with GUI. Now Problem is Each and every time if i need to start performance testing , i need to load JMeter GUI and load my test plans [JMX] created and so..on.. So Now i am Planning to enhance my test Plans to next level as to make use of JMeter API's and write my own test plans and execute them..Which has to be Automated..
Can someone please suggest how to setup my IDE Environment [ANT , MAVEN , JAR's Required] for JMeter programming ? And is there any sample test program on web application trough Jmeter Java programming ? please suggest if there are any links for sample programming jmeter test plans.