Thanks to Dominik, Christian, and Scott for your replies. It's great to have so much help, even if some of it contradicts each other. As far as which list is right, I assumed this would be the place to go for help using Chainsaw and log4net together. Dominik and Christian say that's wrong, Scott says that's possibly right. Oh well.
I did download the Chainsaw snapshot from Scott's site and it's working great with my log4net app - way better than the older version I originally tried. I think this combination will catch on where I work as a useful tool for both Development and QA. Cheers, Todd. From: Scott Deboy [mailto:scott.de...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 8:41 AM To: Log4NET User Subject: Re: Chainsaw There is a developer snapshot of Chainsaw which includes a lot of new features and an improved UI. It's available here: http://people.apache.org/~sdeboy With this version of Chainsaw you can use the Udp appender support in log4net (specify the log4j xml layout) with a Udp receiver. You can also have Chainsaw tail a regular text log file. The Chainsaw config screen will walk you through settings needed to tail a local file and will define a VFSLogFilePatternReceiver. Tailing a log file on a remote windows machine requires downloading the NFS support from the Apache Commons VFS project and installing it next to the other Chainsaw jars. Feel free to send any Chainsaw questions to this list or the log4j list. Scott On Aug 28, 2013 6:50 AM, "Todd Bradley" <todd.brad...@nirvanix.com<mailto:todd.brad...@nirvanix.com>> wrote: Years ago I when I first learned Apache Logging, it was with log4j. And later, the Chainsaw GUI app came along, which was very useful. Now I'm using log4net, and decided that Chainsaw might be a good way to monitor my application's logging in real time. But I was surprised to see that the most recent build is from early 2006, well over 7 years ago. Am I looking in the right place? http://logging.apache.org/chainsaw/download.html It seems hard to believe that Chainsaw hasn't advanced since then. It starts up on my Windows 7 desktop, but the GUI behavior is a bit weird so far. So I'm wondering if the app is really compatible with current Java versions. Do any of you use Chainsaw with log4net, and - if so - is this the correct build for me to use? Thanks, Todd.
