Performance test tools

Tool	Type	Opinions and notes
[JMeter	http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/]	Load test functional behavior and measure performance
[The Grinder	http://grinder.sourceforge.net/]	load testing framework that makes it easy to run a distributed test using many load injector machines
[Hudson Grinder Plugin	http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/Grinder+Plugin]
[Perf4j	http://perf4j.codehaus.org/]	http://www.infoq.com/articles/perf4j