Log4J coolness
I have been a great fan of Log4J since discovering it a few years ago. I am a proponent of the Don’t Use System.out.println! Use Log4j line of thinking. The problem has always been getting Developers to go along with it.
Today the technical lead of my project and I were talking about the problems with Logging, and he was suggesting that the cool answer would be to have a Swing client that read from a custom appender, allowing formatting of the output (colors etc), and dynamic display of messages. I thought, “yeah that’s pretty cool, I wonder if anyone has done it”? I went to the Log4J site and discovered LogFactor5.
It has great features (it meets all of the above requirements), and one of the best bits is that it is already a part of Log4J. just use the appropriate Appender, and you are set.
Open Source is great, isn’t it ;).
June 4th, 2003 at 8:27 am
Don’t forget Chainsaw and Lumbermill. They are also available off of the Log4J site.
June 4th, 2003 at 8:29 am
Hm… is that the new name for Chainsaw?
June 4th, 2003 at 1:03 pm
No, Chainsaw is still called Chainsaw. Lumbermill was a similar project that targeted the JDK 1.4 logging package.
There is a version 2 of Chainsaw under heavy development, which promises to be amazing.
June 5th, 2003 at 7:09 am
The great thing about Log4j is the NT Event Logger. Seriously if you are doing enterprise deployment on NT, W2K or XP this is very important.