# Initial Gatling setup - what is the recommended / best way?! **URL:** \ **Category:** Gatling (Open-Source)\ **Created:** [November 6, 2018, 9:31pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/initial-gatling-setup-what-is-the-recommended-best-way/4627 "2018-11-06T21:31:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Siegfried\_Goeschl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Siegfried\_Goeschl](https://community.gatling.io/u/Siegfried_Goeschl)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2018, 9:31pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/initial-gatling-setup-what-is-the-recommended-best-way/4627/1 "2018-11-06T21:31:08Z")
Hi folks, I’m currently preparing a presentation and I’m a bit puzzled about the best way of a Gatling setup - I think of something moron-proof (aka suitable for me) There are multiple ways of bootstrapping Gatling but none of them make me entirely happy 🙂 My path to happiness - Simple setup for beginners (QA) - Gives you IDE integration for writing tests - Gives you command-line integration for your CI server (Maven, Gradle) - Can be easily put under version control (no libraries) The different approaches I know of **1) Download the Gatling distribution** **\*** This gives you ready-to-use samples and shell/batch files - AFAIK there is no way to wire that setup with your IDE (auto-complete, syntax errors, method navigation) so that would require writing Scala with a text editor? - Windows batch files suck suck since CTRL-C does not terminate the started JVM (to the best of my knowledge) - You should not take that under version control - 400 MB of libraries **2) Use The Gatling Maven Archetype** - Gives you an IDE integration for recording/writing tests - Does not contain the “computer database” samples - Does not use the “gatling-maven-plugin” so little you can do on the the command line - Adding “gatling-maven-plugin” is of course possible but with little Maven/Gatling know-how this is a blocker **3) Craft Your Own Maven pom.xml** - Based on [https://gatling.io/docs/3.0/extensions/maven\_plugin/](https://gatling.io/docs/3.0/extensions/maven_plugin/) - That is more or less advanced stuff - Again - with little Maven/Gatling know-how this is a blocker - Does not contain the “computer database” samples So the questions are - Is there something I don’t know? - How are other people doing that? Thanks in advance, Siegfried Goeschl ---
**Author:** ![slandelle](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.gatling.io/slandelle/32/4_2.png) [@slandelle](https://community.gatling.io/u/slandelle)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2018, 9:44pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/initial-gatling-setup-what-is-the-recommended-best-way/4627/2 "2018-11-06T21:44:51Z")
[https://github.com/gatling/gatling-maven-plugin-demo](https://github.com/gatling/gatling-maven-plugin-demo) ---
**Author:** ![Siegfried\_Goeschl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Siegfried\_Goeschl](https://community.gatling.io/u/Siegfried_Goeschl)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2018, 9:50pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/initial-gatling-setup-what-is-the-recommended-best-way/4627/3 "2018-11-06T21:50:27Z")
Hi Stephane, what do you think about making this link more prominent, e.g. “Getting Started”? ---
**Author:** ![Siegfried\_Goeschl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Siegfried\_Goeschl](https://community.gatling.io/u/Siegfried_Goeschl)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2018, 9:53pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/initial-gatling-setup-what-is-the-recommended-best-way/4627/4 "2018-11-06T21:53:56Z")
Is there something similar for (aka ready-to-use) for Gradle? ---
**Author:** ![sbrevet](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.gatling.io/sbrevet/32/830_2.png) [@sbrevet](https://community.gatling.io/u/sbrevet)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2022, 7:43am UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/initial-gatling-setup-what-is-the-recommended-best-way/4627/5 "2022-11-03T07:43:20Z")
> **[GitHub - gatling/gatling-gradle-plugin-demo-java](https://github.com/gatling/gatling-gradle-plugin-demo-java)** > > Contribute to gatling/gatling-gradle-plugin-demo-java development by creating an account on GitHub. You can find documentation and links to the different demo project in [Extensions](https://gatling.io/docs/gatling/reference/current/extensions/). note: search for “demo” in the page for each extension. We are open to suggestions to improve our documentations. PR welcome Cheers! ---
**Author:** ![GeMi](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.gatling.io/gemi/32/939_2.png) [@GeMi](https://community.gatling.io/u/GeMi)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2022, 10:34am UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/initial-gatling-setup-what-is-the-recommended-best-way/4627/6 "2022-11-03T10:34:59Z")
First of all why you referring to Scala - Java implementation is easier and work perfectly. **Download the Gatling distribution** - referring to JAVA version: you can import this Bundle to IDE (IntelliJ), and everything working as should - auto-complete, syntax errors, method navigation etc. **Use The Gatling Maven Archetype** - as I known this option is not developed and maintained anymore. You can use as @slandelle mentioned: [https://github.com/gatling/gatling-maven-plugin-demo](https://github.com/gatling/gatling-maven-plugin-demo) Or project from [Gatling Academy](https://academy.gatling.io/) - I think the best place to start. Or you can use My project for that - in this project you have all official examples and my solutions for cases from this community: [https://github.com/gemiusz/gatling-examples-maven-java](https://github.com/gemiusz/gatling-examples-maven-java)