log4j 1.3 is abandoned - the useful bits were (mostly) backported to log4j 1.2.15 with a few 'companion' downloads providing the non-core functionality added to 1.3.
There are a few caveats: - Chainsaw V2 trunk (built against log4j 1.2.15) has not yet been released. Once it is released, location info will work again. - The version of Chainsaw available via web start is based on log4j 1.3, so location info won't work - The component, receivers and zeroconf 'companions' have not yet been officially released - the 'extras' companion has been officially released (meaning any not-yet-released companions need to be built from source..) Since Chainsaw V2 built against log4j 1.2.15 (along with the receivers and other companions) have yet to be officially released, it's a pain to build Chainsaw on the trunk (maven dependencies on snapshots...ug). As for compatibility between log4j 1.2.15 (and Chainsaw V2) and prior versions, Chainsaw V2 should work fine with log4j 1.2.9 (including support for location info). Everything we wanted to keep -should- already be backported to log4j 1.2.15 + companions..the sockethubappender buffer issue is one that was missed.. Once everything is released, it'll be a lot easier to build from sources. Scott Deboy Principal Engineer COMOTIV SYSTEMS 111 SW Columbia Street Ste. 950 Portland, OR 97201 Office: 503.224.7496 Direct Line: 503.821.6482 Cell: 503.997.1367 Fax: 503.222.0185 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.comotivsystems.com -----Original Message----- From: Jason Tholstrup [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 2:30 PM To: Log4J Users List Subject: Re: Chainsaw Tab identifier I'm sure you get this a lot but after reading quite a few posts I am still kind of confused: The lineage between the 1.3 and 1.2 branches is very hazy. From what i can tell 1.3 is essentially dead and that 1.2 is the recommended version to use. As for chainsaw, should I be using the v2 that is available directly on apache's web site? This appears to be based on version 1.3 code if I read correctly. Should I instead be using version 1.2.15 and using the chainsaw client available from there as well as using log4j 1.2.15 on my appender side? I've seen posts mentioning getting the latest 1.2.15 version from svn to get the "right" version of chainsaw. Is that now current with the latest release or do I still need to tread into the waters of a nightly build? On the back porting effort, what is the status there? Is that completed and that is the purpose of 1.2.15? Is that just a partial back-port with more to come? Is that a partial back-port and that's the end of the road? And finally we have a third party app we were trying to get logging working under that is using 1.2.9. Could we safely drop in 1.2.15 and be able to configure our appenders as you describe (we have access to the log4j.properties file on the server)? Thanks for being patient and walking me through all of this. You've easily save me a couple of days of bumbling around trying to get this to work. Jason Tholstrup Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mar 3, 2008, at 3:52 PM, Scott Deboy wrote: > SocketHubAppender doesn't have the 'application' property support > built > into the appender like 1.2.15 socketappender does, so to use the > application property with sockethubappender, you'd have to: > > - use log4j 1.2.15 on the appender side > - also include the receivers companion in the classpath > - specify a rewriteappender which adds the 'application' property and > forwards events to the sockethubappender > > I haven't tested that, but it should work.. > > Btw, log4j 1.3 sockethubappender supported a 'buffersize' param which > would forward the last X events to the connecting sockethubreceiver, > but > it doesn't look like that was back-ported to log4j 1.2.15. > > > > Scott Deboy > Principal Engineer > COMOTIV SYSTEMS > 111 SW Columbia Street Ste. 950 > Portland, OR 97201 > Office: 503.224.7496 > Direct Line: 503.821.6482 > Cell: 503.997.1367 > Fax: 503.222.0185 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.comotivsystems.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Tholstrup [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 12:57 PM > To: Log4J Users List > Subject: Re: Chainsaw Tab identifier > > Sorry Scott I had not tried your instructions before I replied last > time. > > I can get PROP.log4j.remoteSourceInfo to show up in my tab identifier > but PROP.application does not seem to work (which to be honest is much > closer to what I want). I've seen that there is an issue with the > serialized object translation from the 1.2.X branch to the 1.3 based > chainsaw v2 download, and I don't receive Class, Method, File, or Line > information in my logs. Is this possibly the reason PROP.application > does not show up, or is there something else I have missed? > > > > Here is the log4j.properties snippet for my app. I've bounced my > server container just to make sure it reloaded and PROP.application > continues to return nothing in chainsaw > > log4j.properties sinppet (on server) > > log4j.appender.HUB=org.apache.log4j.net.SocketHubAppender > log4j.appender.HUB.port=9005 > log4j.appender.HUB.LocationInfo=true > log4j.appender.HUB.Threshold=DEBUG > log4j.appender.HUB.application=SES > > > Test Tab identifier string > PROP.application - PROP.log4j.remoteSourceInfo > > chainsaw.xml > ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> > <!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration> > <log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/"; > debug="true"> > > <plugin name="SocketHubReceiver" > class="org.apache.log4j.net.SocketHubReceiver"> > <param name="host" value="devocs.theebsgroup.com"/> > <param name="port" value="9004"/> > <param name="reconnectionDelay" value="30000"/> > <param name="name" value="devocs SES"/> > </plugin> > > <root> > <level value="debug"/> > </root> > </log4j:configuration> > > > Jason Tholstrup > > > > On Mar 3, 2008, at 11:42 AM, Scott Deboy wrote: > >> Two things: >> >> 1. To get every socketappender connection to display in its own tab >> in >> Chainsaw, use PROP.log4j.remoteSourceInfo as the tab identifier (note >> the log4j. in front of the property name - log4j. isn't some special >> property name, that's just the name of the property). >> >> 2. The 'application' property on socketappender is how you route >> events >> to different tabs when the two apps are running on the same server >> and >> using socketappender. >> >> Here's an example of that config: >> >> <appender name="SOCKET" >> class="org.apache.log4j.net.SocketAppender"> >> <param name="remoteHost" value="localhost"/> >> <param name="LocationInfo" value="true"/> >> <param name="port" value="4560"/> >> <param name="application" value="someappname"/> >> </appender> >> >> Use a different value in the 'application' param for each of the >> socketappender configs and you should be fine. >> >> >> Scott Deboy >> Principal Engineer >> COMOTIV SYSTEMS >> 111 SW Columbia Street Ste. 950 >> Portland, OR 97201 >> Office: 503.224.7496 >> Direct Line: 503.821.6482 >> Cell: 503.997.1367 >> Fax: 503.222.0185 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> www.comotivsystems.com >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jason Tholstrup [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 9:24 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Chainsaw Tab identifier >> >> Hello, >> >> I'm trying to figure out what things I need to place in my Tab >> identifier field to filter out my applications. I'm using log4j v >> 1.2.13 and chainsaw v2. I have two applications running on the same >> server and both are using a socketHubAppender on different ports. >> >> I don't have any location info so the default "PROP.hostName - >> PROP.application" only separates by hostname and since I'm running >> two >> apps on the same server I get both logs dumped to the same tab. I've >> tried adding PROP.remoteSourceInfo (since that is a column in the >> logs >> that shows up and has the port number listed) and that property >> appears to return nothing. It's my understanding that the location >> info does not work in log4j 1.2.X. So my question is two fold. Is >> there some reference that I can look at that will tell me what >> properties are available, and can someone tell me how I would go >> about >> doing this? I see in the comments for LoggingEventFieldResolver the >> following field are available but nothing here seems like it will >> work >> for me. Plus there seems to be no explanation of what keyName is in >> PROP.keyName. >> >> * Field Name Field value (String >> representation Return type >> * LOGGER category name >> (logger) String >> * LEVEL >> level Level >> * CLASS locationInformation's class >> name String >> * FILE locationInformation's file >> name String >> * LINE locationInformation's line >> number String >> * METHOD locationInformation's method >> name String >> * MSG >> message Object >> * NDC >> NDC String >> * EXCEPTION throwable string >> representation ThrowableInformation >> * TIMESTAMP >> timestamp Long >> * THREAD >> thread String >> * PROP.keyName entry in the Property >> hashtable String >> * mapped to the key [keyName] >> >> >> Any help would be appreciated. >> >> Jason Tholstrup >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
