Hi. I was able to use SocketAppender by connecting it to Log4J's ServerSocket. I was expecting that if I turn off the ServerSocket, and then activating it back, my SocketAppender would reconnect to the ServerSocket. In fact, it doesn't happen.
My question is: Does an application using SocketAppender should be able to automatically reconnect to to a SocketServer? (There are some situations where I start my SocketServer *after* the SocketAppender's application already started) This is my appender's configuration: <appender name="MySocketAppender" class="org.apache.log4j.net.SocketAppender"> <param name="RemoteHost" value="127.0.0.1"/> <param name="Port" value="5681"/> <param name="ReconnectionDelay" value="5681"/> <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout"> <param name="ConversionPattern" value="'%m%n'"/> <param name="append" value="true"/> </layout> </appender> Thanks.