On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Scott Deboy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is support for the concept of an event sink (receivers) going to be > straightforward to implement using log4j2's configuration support? > > I just want to make sure we are covering our bases there. It would be > great to have explicit support for receivers, the same as we have for > appenders. > > For the socketappender, can it be configured to be multicast? If so, it > would be good to be able to provide in the interface that was going to be > used. > > There are of course other appenders (the reverse-connect > sockethubappender, for example), and the other network-based appenders > which can probably be replaced by this single socket appender if it were > beefed up a bit. > > SocketAppender itself doesn't do much. It is really an OutputStreamAppender that leverages a SocketManager. At the moment it supports a TCPSocketManager and a DatagramSocketManager. Adding other types of SocketManagers doesn't require much. Ralph
