At 2004-12-16 16:51:31, Richard Sitze wrote:
> I do not advocate a fail-on-no-config or fail-on-ambiguous-config.
>
> I advocate a *warn* or *error* on either, using the simple default logger.
> The warning will be visible on the console, which suffices for my
> immediate concerns. How that warning/error (in general) is managed is up
> to the application environment.
Log4j 1.3 can use itself for its own logging. So, when appender A
fails, it can report errors using appender B. Appender B could alert the
system admin if that is the desired behavior.
The same goes for configuration errors which are also accessible
programmatically. For example,
Configurator c = new SomeLog4jConfigurator();
c.configure("some file");
List el = c.getErrorList();
if(el.size > 0) {
if(analyzeErrors(el)) {
// errors during logging configuration
throw new IllegalStateException("Can't proceed withour logging");
}
}
boolean analyzeErrors(List el) {
// custom analysis of the errors go here
return true/false;
}
It seems to me that log4j already fulfills Richard's requirements wrt
logging errors and logging configuration.
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