Thanks! The only thing is that the SocketNode class seems to be removed in 0.10.0 I will try with 0.9.7
Ruud On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 1:47 PM, rizwan khalid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > Few months back Amit Sarna sent me a working example for client/server > loggers. It uses SockeAppender but it should be easily converted to > XMLSocketAppender. Below i am pasting the Amit's email which will help you > in building the sample attached with this mail... > > Hi Rizwan, > > Sorry for delayed response. This is my work e-mail so can't see it on > weekends. I've attached the source and config files in a .RAR file. It's a > very simple example but enough to show how to do a client and a server. I > haven't included make files because our makefiles use a lot of environment > vars specific to our app but if you can't get it compiling i can try and > rustle one up for you tonight. > > > > The config files should be in the same directory as the executables. When > you've compiled both, run the server first, then run the client. This should > produce two log files, the client one should log as expected, and the server > one should log it's own stuff and also messages sent from the client app. > > > > If you need any explanation on anything drop me a mail and i'll do my best > :-) > > > > Cheers > > Amit > > > -- > Rizwan Khalid > Phone: +92 021 2781592 > 14th Floor, National IT Park, Shahra-e-Faisal > Karachi, Pakistan > > > > > --------- Original message -------- > From: "Curt Arnold" > To: "Log4CXX User" > Subject: [SPAM] Re: Server side socket usage > Date: 05-16-08 01:17 > > > On May 15, 2008, at 9:45 AM, Ruud Bos wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm new to the list, so I have no idea if this question has been > > asked many times before. I hope someone can put me in the right > > direction. > > > > I'd like to use log4cxx for two applications. One acts as a client > > that needs to send it's logging to a server application using socket > > communication. Both programs are written in C++. > > > > From the few things I could find on the internet about the use of > > the ServerSocket class, I was not able to create something that > > works. Most of these only talk about the client side and use the > > java substitute log4j for the server side. > > > > If someone could point me to some example code, that would be > > extremely helpful. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Ruud > > > > > log4cxx 0.9.7 came with an implementation of both the client and > server side for SocketAppender, but used its own format that was not > platform independent. So if the sender and receiver differed in > endianness, character type, int length or the like, bad things would > happen. > > log4cxx 0.10.0 replaced that with an implementation that produced a > stream format compatible with log4j's format (the Java serialization > of its LoggingEvent class). This allows interoperability with > Chainsaw and eliminated the platform variation of the format. > > There is a huge degree of variability allowed with Java serialization > so it is much easier to write a logging event that can be read by Java > serialization than reliably read a logging event written by Java > serialization. You could write code that read log4cxx's specific take > on it, but that would be unlikely to reliably read events from log4j. > > If you were going to receive events from log4cxx, I would suggest > using the XMLSocketAppender as the format would require less custom > code to parse the stream format. I'm sorry, but I'm not aware of any > sample code for it. > > >
