Right, we want to use JMSAppender to store our message in the DB. But we may want to store the formatted version of the message in our database. However, are you saying that the JMSAppender does not handle calling Layout itself? So does our MDB have to have access to our log4j.properties file and read it manually? I'm hoping I'm missing something here.... ;-)
- Brendan -----Original Message----- From: Paul Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 6:40 PM To: Log4J Users List Subject: Re: Using Layouts with JMSAppender In your MDB, just have an instance of a Layout and format it then. Otherwise you don't want to use JMSAppender. JMSAppender is about sending the binary contents of the LoggingEvent over JMS for some other reason (say, to view in a GUI, or store in a DB). Paul On 07/02/2006, at 11:36 AM, CONNER, BRENDAN (SBCSI) wrote: > I finally got the JMSAppender working, and I can receive the logged > message using a Message Driven Bean. While working with my example, I > noticed that the message that is received by the onMessage() method is > an instance of ObjectMessage, which wraps an instance of LoggingEvent. > My question is: > > How can I retrieve a formatted version of the logged message, as > formatted by the layout given in my log4j.properties file? > > When I look at the string returned by LoggingEvent.getMessage(), it is > just the string that was logged by the code, not the formatted string > that should be the output of the Layout class. Similarly, the string > returned by LoggingEvent.getRenderedMessage() is also just the string > that was logged by the code. > > Any help would be appreciated. My log4j.properties file contains the > following entries: > > log4j.category.com.ibm.example.pubsub=DEBUG, JmsAppender > > log4j.appender.JmsAppender=org.apache.log4j.net.JMSAppender > log4j.appender.JmsAppender.topicConnectionFactoryBindingName=java:comp > /e > nv/jms/PSExampleConnectionFactoryRef > log4j.appender.JmsAppender.topicBindingName=java:comp/env/jms/ > PSExampleT > opicRef > log4j.appender.JmsAppender.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout > log4j.appender.JmsAppender.layout.ConversionPattern=%d [%-5p] (%t) %c: > %m%n > > - Brendan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
