This is slightly related to the recent HibernateAppender discussion from a few days ago. Does anyone care to share their thoughts on how logging frameworks and object persistence frameworks are related or can better work with each other?
I work primarily on the .NET side of things with tools like iBATIS, NHibernate, and log4net. Instead of relying on the persistence framework to supply a database connection to use with the AdoNetAppender, I find myself always using a standard connection string and relying on the AdoNetAppender to manage IDbConnection object(s) for me (instead of NHibernate's Session for example). My thinking on this is that I don't want to loose a logging message due to the persistence framework failing to flush some internal buffer at the correct time. Log4net's AdoNetAppender is much easier to setup/change than a full persistence framework. I usually don't consider the viewing of log messages to be an application level task. I think its more of an infrastructure related task (i.e. all applications log to a central database and that database has a log viewing application). I personally would not find something like the HibernateAppender useful because I don't need to extract log messages out of the database. My applications' primary concern is recording the messages as fast and reliably as possible. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
