Thank you Anders. Much appreciated. Anders Hammar wrote: > I was asked by Ceki to share my successful Logback story with you all. > > In a former assignment for one of our customers, we implemented an > audit component. The customer is to use this component in their > applications to audit end-user activities. > > In some earlier application specific audit implementations, log4j had > been used. However, log4j (and pretty much all existing application > logging frameworks that I looked at) has the notion of logging levels. > For auditing (at least in this customer's case) we have actions/events > which have no relation between them. So, having levels of debug, info, > warn, etc isn't right but we rather have independent events. > When I found Logback it was kind of love at first sight, the modular > design fitted beautifully with what we wanted and we chose Logback > (specifically logback-core) for our actual audit logging. We based > this choice on two factors in specific: > 1. The possibility of log on actions/events rather than levels (as > above described) > 2. The possiblity of having several independently configured logback > instances. (This is not possible with log4j for instance, and as the > customer's app server of choice uses log4j we would need to combine > application logging and audit logging configuration - which is not > good out of security perspective.) > > Also, the extensive documentation made my work easy to recommend the > framework. As we all know, good documentation is not always the case > in OSS. However, as mentioned on the mailing list earlier, the lack of > a 1.0 release could have been a problem. However, Ceki's track record > (with log4j) made me feel safe still going with Logback. > > As i personally strongly believe in OSS I normally participate and > contribute to the community of the libs I use. However, working as a > consultant I just can't be involved in everything and tend to only > stay active as long as the assignment lasts (there are a few > exceptions). Therefore I don't subscribe to this mailing list any > longer, but I will monitor this thread so if you have any questions > regarding my use case I'll be happy to answer them. > > /Anders > _______________________________________________ > Logback-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://qos.ch/mailman/listinfo/logback-user >
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