Added documentation to the "Extending Log4j" page. Let me know if you have
any more questions about it.
On 26 May 2016 at 16:23, Matt Sicker wrote:
> Is there any place the factory method version is documented? I could add
> the info there. Otherwise, I'll have to figure out an appropriate place
Is there any place the factory method version is documented? I could add
the info there. Otherwise, I'll have to figure out an appropriate place for
it (perhaps in the manual).
On 26 May 2016 at 13:35, Matt Sicker wrote:
> Sure. I can't believe I forgot to document that better.
>
> On 26 May 201
Sure. I can't believe I forgot to document that better.
On 26 May 2016 at 12:06, Ralph Goers wrote:
> Can you provide documentation on using the builder? I tried to implement
> something a few months ago using a builder and couldn’t quite figure it all
> out so I went back to using a factory.
>
Can you provide documentation on using the builder? I tried to implement
something a few months ago using a builder and couldn’t quite figure it all out
so I went back to using a factory.
Ralph
> On May 26, 2016, at 8:31 AM, Matt Sicker wrote:
>
> I prefer builders when you have more than 2
I prefer builders when you have more than 2 arguments to the factory. This
is based on Item 2 from Effective Java (prefer builders for constructors
that take a lot of arguments).
On 26 May 2016 at 10:24, Mikael Ståldal wrote:
> Which one of builder and factory is preferred?
>
> On Thu, May 26, 2
Which one of builder and factory is preferred?
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Matt Sicker wrote:
> Just FYI, if you make a plugin builder, you don't need to make a plugin
> factory as well. The builder is used first if available followed by the
> factory method. Classes that have both are main
