Calling a servlet from a test harness

[N Goldsmith]

I want to write a test harness for our servlets (running in Tomcat). I will need to configure the test harness to simulate various volumes of traffic calling our servlets and the rate they are called (burst, steady, etc). What is the best way to simulate user activity like that? Is there a tool (in Eclipse or otherwise) that can be built upon? A browser based solution (JSP, etc)?

[Praveen Dharmavaram]

You can try looking at a tool called "load runner" and "AK Stress". These are the two tools I worked with before.

[William Brogden]

I have used HttpClient from the Apache Commons project. You can simulate quite complex sequences of requests simulating real users with it.
Bill