Leo Simons wrote:
- I like the tool and want it in!
Me too ;-)
- is the library it links to open source, or free, or at least free to link to?
Ok. Maybe I wasn't clear in the first post : this LogFactor5 (LF5 for short) *was* a commercial product that was donated to the Log4J project last year (see [1]). So it's now hosted and maintained by Apache.
This is a logging GUI that is logging system-agnostic. Just an adapter to write from LogKit's LogEvent to LF5's LogRecord and we're done.
The library it's linked to is log4j.jar, or only its "org.apache.log4j.lf5" package if we don't want to distribute the full competitor's jar with logkit ;-)
- the inclusion should be optional like is done for the existing log targets; haven't checked whether the patch includes that functionality
There was already a test for the presence of Log4J in logkit's build (don't know why), I just had to update the version number to the latest release, which contains LF5.
- it doesn't break anything existing code I believe, and if the code has been amply tested, I'm happy with throwing it in right now
It shouldn't break anything, since if you don't use it, it's never loaded.
- my 2pc would be to add this stuff to logkit itself; it's not utility code but a LogTarget
That were my thoughts also. Having it inside LogKit is also IMO a great marketing benefit, since LogKit claims to be the simplest and the fastest (and it is), but lacks some nifty convenience tools that "other" log systems provide.
Sylvain
[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=log4j-dev&m=101848239816243&w=2
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