Ceki, Yes, that would be a good solution, but there would have to be a persistent JVM running to talk to somewhere and that raises its own problems in terms of maintenance and reliability, some of the solutions I mentioned take care of that for you.
But a client/server model like that could be really powerful. Unfortunately, the Externalizable interface looks like it takes serialized Java classes, and so does the log4j.net.SimpleSocketServer, which reduces their usefullness to non-java processes. Could the log4j stuff present an interface that accepts simple XML messages? Then *everybody* could log to a log4j server--jabber clients, ruby programs, shell scripts, you name it. Ceki Gülcü wrote: > > Kevin, > > I meant bridging in the large sense: having Log::Log4perl call log4j > appenders and also vice versa (why not?). > > One relatively "low tech" solution is to have Log::Log4perl client to > talk to a log4j server by sending serialized logging events. The next > version of log4j is very likely to use the java.io.Externalizable > interface which just might be simple enough to be reproduced by a perl > client. The disadvantage of this solution is that it requires an > additional process (the log4j server process). The advantage is that > it is "low tech" using just TCP to bridge between perl and java > logging. The same technique can also apply to bridging other > languages. > > As you mentioned in your mail, another approach consists of embedding > Java within Perl or directly calling java from perl. My unfounded > suspicion is that this technique will be slow and too complex although I > might be completely off base here. > > At 10:25 11.07.2002 -0700, Kevin Goess wrote: > >Ceki, > > > >You mean have a perl call to the logger handled by the java appender? > >Funny, I didn't even think of that. That would be interesting, I'm > >going to add it to the feature list on sourceforge. These would all be > >possible implementations: > >Inline::Java - http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Inline-Java > >Java - http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Java > >Jvm - http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Jvm > > > >Ceki Gülcü wrote: > > > > > > Mike, > > > > > > This is wonderful news. I wish a tool like Log::Log4perl existed at > > > the time when I was doing serious Perl development. I'll update the > > > downloads page asap. > > > > > > Do you think we could bridge between log4j appenders and Log::Log4perl > > > appenders? Is that a venue that you would like to pursue? > > > > > -- > Ceki -- Happy Trails . . . Kevin M. Goess (and Anne and Frank) 904 Carmel Ave. Albany, CA 94706 (510) 525-5217 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
