Greg, Thanks. I will add a note about it.
-Mark > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Cutler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 10:20 AM > To: Log4J Developers List > Subject: Re: January Jakarta Newsletter - log4j > > > Hello Mark - > > Just wondered if a small update about the progress of > the wiki pages might also be interesting. > > Greg > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I put this together for the January Jakarta > > newsletter. If you have any > > comments, please let me know. I figured I would > > give folks here a chance to > > comment before sending it to Rob Oxspring for > > release. > > -Mark > > ------------ > > Log4j - a fast and flexible framework for logging > > application debugging > > messages. > > > > Editor: Mark Womack > > > > This month's edition contains items from December > > and January. > > > > Initial implementations of Plugin, PluginRegistry, > > and Receivers were > > checked in for review [1]. Plugins will be part of > > the log4j v1.3 release. > > They allow developers to add functionality to log4j > > on a per > > LoggerRepository basis and are fully configurable > > via log4j configuration > > files. Receivers are an implementation of Plugin > > that will "post" remote > > logging events to the LoggerRepository the receiver > > is configured for. > > > > There was a brief discussion started by Scott Klein > > about a new gui tool for > > viewing log4j logging events that cascaded into a > > discussion of possibly > > creating a viewer that combines the best aspects of > > the current log4j gui > > viewers, Chainsaw and LF5. This led to an informal > > decision to package > > Chainsaw and LF5 in their own executable jars, > > separately from the core > > log4j jar, for v1.3. [2] > > > > Jay Funnell contributed the NetSendAppender[3]. This > > appender uses the > > Windows "NET SEND" command to transport log > > messages. > > > > A new servlet package was added to contain log4j > > related classes that can be > > used within web applications. It contains a useful > > set of classes, and is > > expected to grow with future contributions. Initial > > contributions are: > > InitServlet, InitContextListener (both from Jacob > > Kjome) [4], > > ConfigurationServlet (Luther Birdzell) [5], and > > CookieMDCFilter [6]. > > > > A new selector package was added to contain > > implementations of the log4j > > RepositorySelector interface [7]. The > > RepositorySelector is a powerful > > device that allows for LoggerRepositories to be > > separated from each other, > > each maintaining their own space. The selector can > > be implemented to choose > > the active repository based on a specific criteria. > > An initial contribution > > from Jacob Kjome, ContextClassLoaderSelector [8], > > chooses the repository > > based on the context class loader and is compatible > > for use in Tomcat 4.1.X. > > > > It was decided to created a log4j-sandbox cvs > > repository [9]. This cvs will > > contain new, experimental, and contributed log4j > > related code. Once proven, > > the classes will be considered for inclusion in the > > core log4j release. > > Initial candidates for filling the sandbox are the > > filter, selector, and > > servlet packages. > > > > log4jMini, a compact version of log4j, was added to > > the log4j cvs [10]. The > > current version is out of sync with the changes in > > v1.2 and now that it is > > in cvs, developers can submit changes to make it > > v1.2 compatible [11]. > > > > Changes are planned for v1.3 release related to > > better memory efficiency > > within several log4j classes [12]. > > > > Creating a top level Apache project, > > logging.apache.org, is being explored > > [13]. The goal of this top level project would be > > to bring all of the log4X > > related logging frameworks under the ASF umbrella. > > Another major goal would > > be to implement cross-language/cross-platform > > logging within each of these > > frameworks. There was also some interesting > > discussion about the current > > state of log4j and how the logging.apache.org > > project would affect it [14]. > > > > [1] > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103950495700003&r=1&w=2 > > [2] > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103963431900001&r=1&w=2 > > [3] > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103945762400007&r=1&w=2 > > [4] > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=log4j-dev&m=104335006426248&w=2 > > [5] > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=104022409200004&r=1&w=2 > > [6] > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=log4j-dev&m=104011113830842&w=2 > > [7] > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103973290800001&r=1&w=2 > > [8] > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103976602200003&r=1&w=2 > > [9] > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=104161963300006&r=1&w=2 > > [10] > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=104201771300001&r=1&w=2 > > [11] > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=104307344600004&r=1&w=2 > > [12] > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103366200900007&r=1&w=2 > > [13] > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=104366626700004&r=1&w=2 > > [14] > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=104361737900003&r=1&w=2 > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! 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