Hello, I am trying to create a DailyRollingFileAppender that will notify a set of listeners after the file has rolled. Here is the situation. We are using Oracle's TopLink as our persistence engine and JBoss as the application server. We are using Log4J as our logging mechanism and we have setup a custom JNDI Repository Selector to separate the JBoss logging from our application. We are passing the Log4J log file to TopLink so that DB messages can be logged.
This works fine until the log file rolls. TopLink has no idea that its Writer is now invalid and we lose our DB logs. So the idea is to write a custom appender that keeps a list of LogRollListeners and when the log file rolls, it sends a Writer to the new log file to all of the potential "listeners", including our TopLinkLogRollListener so that it can reset its log destination file. So here is the problem... We want the functionality of the DailyRollingFileAppender, but it is not subclassable from outside of the "org.apache.log4j" package due to the fact that several of the member variables are private or package scope and even the rollOver() method is declared as package scope. So we have resorted to creating, basically, the same exact functionality as the DailyRollingFileAppender in a completely new class to which we added our small (6 lines) code. Is there a better way to do this, or is this being addressed in future versions of Log4J? Thanks for your help. Jason Fletcher --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
