I've written a Selector for the AJP/1.3 protocol (what Tomcat uses with mod_jk), that I'd like to offer to JMeter. It allows you to test Tomcat in AJP mode without actually having Apache installed and configured (which, is probably a minority interest case). It works pretty well for HTTP against trunk. It probably needs some work for https (mostly GUI for entering in key-size, cipher, client-cert, et. al., since I'm lazy :). I'm happy to help with the protocol side if anybody wants to add this stuff.
Created attachment 17053 [details] Selector Class File Needs to be re-packaged (since I'm not involved enough with JMeter to choose a good package name). However, the ASF Licence allows you to do that without problem.
Created attachment 17054 [details] Sampler GUI class Needs to be re-packaged. I'm not involved enough with JMeter to come up with a good package name myself. However, the ASF License allows you to do just that with no problem.
Thanks very much. I'll try and take a closer look shortly.
Finally got around to adding the code to the 2.1 branch. It will be in the next release. Seems to compile OK, but I was not able to test it. I had to make the responseData field transient in order to pass the serialisation test.
This issue has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/apache/jmeter/issues/1639