Hello, Christian, thanks for the introduction :-) I've had a very short look at trunk of the extras package. It's some work to do to get this stuff up to date, so we better start right away ;-) Just point me to the repository after you have decided where to host the development.
Best regards, Benedikt 2013/10/7 Scott Deboy <[email protected]> > Sounds great! I definitely would like to help on the log4j2 receivers > portion and any syncing you want to do with Chainsaw. > > > Scott > > > On 10/6/13, Christian Grobmeier <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello folks! > > > > early this year I wrote a small and simply http server for demonstration > > purposes. It's based on NIO. When I picked up this task I always thought > > it would be good for an idea I have on logging for a while now. > > > > Here it is: > > https://bitbucket.org/grobmeier/lionbeast > > > > I would like to change the server in a way so it can make use of Log4j > > receivers to receive logging events. Lionbeast shall provide a way to > > manipulate these events and enable to create some metrics or something > > similar. At the moment it is possible to create dynamic websites using > > JRuby. I would like to have "Loglets" one day. This is basically a > > script or implemented class which lets users work with the events the > > way they want. > > > > I absolutely know about Apache Flume. I consider Flume the "big brother" > > of Lionbeast. Lionbeast aims to be easy to use, install and extend. I > > consider it more to be a partner of Chainsaw actually. Like the > > server-side Version of Chainsaw. Actually I believe there might be some > > opportunities if Chainsaw and Lionbeast would come together. > > > > If you like my idea, I would like to contribute the current code and ask > > for a Git-Repository at Infra. > > My current plan is to work on it over years change mostly and thats why > > I am starting now to have it ready for that time. > > In addition I would like to put some work in the current Receivers. I > > don't know if they currently work with Log4j2 but I guess not so well. I > > think there should be a receivers package directly in the Log4j 2 trunk, > > maybe even in the core. > > > > I recently spoke to Benedikt Ritter who is a committer/PMC at Apache > > Commons. I told him about my ideas and he motivated me to move forward > > with it. Furthermore Benedikt expressed his interest to participate. I > > would like to give him access to the Git repository as well. We should > > also discuss if we should open a sandbox for logging in general, where > > interested fellow committers can contribute code without having > > committer-ship at logging. > > > > Thoughts? Comments? Likes? Dislikes? > > > > Cheers > > Christian > > > > > > --- > > http://www.grobmeier.de > > @grobmeier > > GPG: 0xA5CC90DB > > > -- http://people.apache.org/~britter/ http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter http://github.com/britter
