Quoting Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 02:50, Berin Loritsch wrote:
> > There are a couple of ways we can approach this. This is good to
> start
> > with, and I agree, the LogTargetFactories can be specified as a
> classloader
> > resource. It is good to have the markup available here as well so that
> > users can extend the factories with their own. I would have a
> Hierarchical
> > factory definition like the RoleManager in Excalibur.component. That
> way,
> > we can specify the base definitions via classloader, and then we can
> > suppliment or override the factories with other ones:
> >
> > <factories href="logfactories.factory"/>
> >
> > or even:
> >
> > <factories href="logfactories.factory">
> > <factory type="bar"
> >
> > class="org.apache.avalon.excalibur.logger.factory.BarTargetFactory"/>
> > </factories>
> >
> > The order of precedence would be:
> >
> > 1) <factory/> elements
> > 2) <factories href="location.factories"/>
> > 3) classloader
> >
> > If each one of those resources contained the "foo" factory, the one in
> the
> > logkit file wins.
>
> I like (1) and (3) ;)
This means you don't like to extend the system to have the ability to specify an
additional config file that contains factory definitions? So this would mean
that "take the one provided by the system (as classloader reasource) or write
your own definition right here into the config file (and not in an additional
separate file), right?
> How about any Jar that contains LogTarget Factories must create a file
>
> META-INF/services/org.apache.avalon.excalibur.logger.LogFactory.xml
Hm.., I think I need to study all thos jar/META stuff 'caus I'm not familiar
with thos features.
> that contains all references available. This would mean that we no
> longer
> need (1), (2) or (3) and it wouls still be very flexible (besides being
> standard with other toolkits). Thoughts?
As stated above, i cannot speak on this because of lack knowledge ATM.
> ...snip...
> > This all looks good.
> >
> > <skip excellent overview that should be made into an xdoc>
>
> +1000
Thank you all :)
Giacomo
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