Mike,
You are absolutely right. The HISTORY comment is wrong. It could be removed altogether
or changed to
The code handling instanceFCQN parameter was cleaned up. There is now a
well-established and simple manner for sub-classes of Category (or wrapper classes) to
define the instanceFCQN parameter.
Cheers, Ceki
> Made the instanceFCQN an instance variable instead of a class
>static in Category.java. In related move, the Category constructor
>now takes an additional argument setting the instanceFCQN. This
>makes life less miserable for Category subclasses. [*]
At 21:42 26.02.2001 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>The statement:
>
>Made the instanceFCQN an instance variable instead of a class
>static in Category.java. In related move, the Category constructor
>now takes an additional argument setting the instanceFCQN. This
>makes life less miserable for Category subclasses. [*]
>
>
>seems incorrect, as I am looking at Category and dont see this change. I
>do see that instanceFQCN is changed to FQCN.
>
>My download is jakarta-log4j-1.1b1, which was from
>http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/docs/download.html
>
>Also, I downloaded the zip version, not the tar version.
>
>Mike Papper
>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
>On 2/23/2001, 2:07:17 PM, Ceki Gülcü <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding log4j
>version 1.1b1 available:
>
>
>> Greetings,
>
>
>> Log4j version 1.1 beta 1 is now available on
>> http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/download.html. This version has the
>> ominous beta flag because it introduces new API methods, namely
>> getOption(key), which is still subject of debate.
>
>> On the other hand, this version fixes a few bugs and irons out
>> numerous wrinkles.
>
>> In this release, the FileAppender has been split two 3 parts,
>> Appenders and Layouts now get to see the raw message object in
>> LoggingEvent, Appender and Layouts now return their option setting
>> through the newly introduced and controversial getOption(key)
>> method. Otherwise, there are no major changes in this release.
>
>> I will be away for two weeks with no access to a computer. I preferred
>> to make a beta release now, instead of delaying the release by at
>> least another two weeks. Enjoy, Ceki
>
>
>> The HISTORY file reads:
>
>> [*] Changes that are 100% compatible with existing client code.
>> [**] Changes that requiring little or no modification to existing
>> client code.
>> [***] Changes requiring important modifications to existing client code.
>
>
>> February 23, 2001
>
>> - Release of version 1.1b1
>
>> - Logging can now be disabled per Hierarchy. It can also be disabled
>> using configuration files using the "disable" directive. The
>> disableOverride directive takes precedence over the disable
>> directive. As a result of this change the disable family of
>> methods has moved from the BasicConfigurator class to the Hierarchy
>> class. [**]
>
>> - Changed the name of the configuration element to log4j:configuration
>in the
>> log4j.dtd. All configuration files written in XML need to be
>> modified. [**]
>
>> The following perl command can help:
>
>> perl -p -i.bak -e "s/configuration/log4j:configuration/;" file1.xml ..
>fileN.xml
>
>> - The FileAppender has been split into three parts: WriterAppender,
>> ConsoleAppender and FileAppender. ConsoleAppender takes over the
>> console logging functionality of FileAppender. As a result Support
>> for stream and console printing has been deprecated in FileAppender..
>[**]
>
>> - The FileAppender now correctly outputs the header and footer of its
>> layout. This problem was reported by too many users to list here. [*]
>
>> - Appenders and Layouts now get to see the raw message object in
>> LoggingEvent not just its rendered form. The access modifiers of
>> some LoggingEvent fields were changed so that they can be accessed
>> in less error-prone ways. Thanks to Jim Cakalic and Anders Kristens
>> for their valuable advice. [*]
>
>> - Added getLayout(), getErrorHandler(), and getFilter() to the
>> Appender interface. [*]
>
>> - Added getOption(key) method to the OptionHandler interface and
>modified
>> implementations of it as appropriate. [*]
>
>> - Added the much awaited DailyRollingFileAppender. [*]
>
>> - The structure of the distribution changed somewhat. The log4j.jar
>> files can be found under dist/. The javadoc directory has been
>> moved to docs/api/. We are now totally dependent on ANT to perform
>> all the steps involved in creating a release, in including
>> compilation, jar file creation, generation of the javadocs, and for
>> the creation of the distribution tar and zip files. [*]
>
>> - Removed org/apache/log4j/varia/ResilientFileAppender.java which was
>> bogus to begin with. [*]
>
>> - XMLLayout will now mark some output as <![CDATA .. [[> so that it
>> does not get interpreted by the XML parser. This was suggested by
>> Mathias Bogaert like a long list of other fixes. [*]
>
>> - Corrected a bug in CyclicBuffer.resize method that would not update
>the
>> next insertion point. Thanks to Ole Bulbuk for accurately reporting
>> the bug. [*]
>
>> - The LoggingEvent class now supports serialization of priorities
>> derived from the org.apache.log4j.Priority class. [*]
>
>> - Improved the search method for finding the "log4j.properties" file in
>> the static initializer of Category class. Thanks to Calvin Chan for
>> supplying a better method. [*]
>
>> - Made the instanceFCQN an instance variable instead of a class
>> static in Category.java. In related move, the Category constructor
>> now takes an additional argument setting the instanceFCQN. This
>> makes life less miserable for Category subclasses. [*]
>
>> - Corrected a bug in the OptionConverter.instantiateByClassName
>> method that would not return the defaultValue in case of error. Thanks
>> to Matthieu Verbert for identifying this bug.
>
>> - Corrected the missing stack trace in e-mails generated by the
>> SMTPAppender when using certain Layouts. [*]
>
>> - Updated the "Adding Conversion Characters to PatternLayout"
>> document to reflect the latest changes to the code. Also added the
>> org/apache/log4j/examples/appserver directory containing the
>> associated example code. [*]
>
>> - Added the BufferSize option to the AsyncAppender. [*]
>
>> - Eliminated the SecurityExceptions thrown in Applets. Thanks Timur
>> Zambalayev for reporting this bug. [*]
>
>> - Fixed the erroneously thrown IOInterruptedException when the
>AsyncAppender
>> was closed. Thanks to Tom Palmer for accurately reporting this bug.
>[*]
>
>
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