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+#!/bin/sh
+
+export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-amd64
+
+export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
+
+export ANT_OPTS="-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m"
+
+#ls $JAVA_HOME
+java -version
+
+# compile-ooxml-lite test-all testcoveragereport
+#/opt/apache/apache-ant/apache-ant-1.7.1/bin/
+ant init compile-examples
+if [ $? -ne 0 ];then
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+if [ ! -d build/ooxml-lite-classes ];then
+  ant compile-ooxml-lite
+  if [ $? -ne 0 ];then
+	exit 1
+  fi
+fi
+
+
+for i in build/dist/maven/poi*/*.jar build/*classes ooxml-lib/xmlbeans-2.3.0.jar ooxml-lib/dom4j-1.6.1.jar;do
+	JARS="$JARS:$i"
+done
+
+ROWS=25000
+COLS=25
+
+AGENT=-agentpath:/opt/dynaTrace/dynatrace-6.1.0/agent/lib64/libdtagent.so=name=ApachePOI,server=localhost
+
+echo CP: $JARS
+java -cp $JARS -Xmx1024m $AGENT org.apache.poi.ss.examples.SSPerformanceTest HSSF $ROWS $COLS 0 && \
+java -cp $JARS -Xmx1024m $AGENT org.apache.poi.ss.examples.SSPerformanceTest XSSF $ROWS $COLS 0 && \
+java -cp $JARS -Xmx1024m $AGENT org.apache.poi.ss.examples.SSPerformanceTest SXSSF $ROWS $COLS 0 && \
+echo All done