Standard JavaBeans convention. So if you have a option called "president" that wants the name of the current U.S. President, you would have a method called setPresident(String pres) and getPresident(). Then, in the log4j.properties file you would have a line like "MAIN.president=Bush"
You can find the archives at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=log4j-user&r=1&w=2 and http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=log4j-dev&r=1&w=2 -Jim Moore -----Original Message----- From: Gary Udstrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 7:28 PM To: log4j-dev Subject: Options for appenders I am writing my own appender and would like to pass in some options. I am not sure that I quite understand the mechanism that is to be used to do this, can someone give me a point in the right direction? I apologize if this has been asked and answered in previous dialogues but I was unable to find a way to access the archives. Thanks -Gary -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>