Hi, I had a specific requirement that a certain set of similar Jobs should be logged one individual file per Job. That would make things easier to troubleshooting. With the current FileAppenders implementation it would require a new appender and category for each Job. Since, so far, we have already 20 jobs it would be really painful to add and maintain all of them and also the Jobs can be dynamically added to the system. That would break the rule of having one file per Jobs. I've researched but I couldn't find an appender where the name of the file to log could be configured dynamically. Given this requirements my idea was provide a way to use PatternLayout like file names. This code allow the fileName to be defined as: "c:/temp/server[%-5p].log" Depending on the pattern a new file can be generated by class, category or even by day, hour, ... I've used the FileAppender code as base I've provide the JavaDoc for the most important methods. I hope it's useful and can be added to the project Regards, Eduardo
ConfigurableFileNameAppender.java
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