No, make it settable from JMX. That way when you want it true, you make
it true, when you want it false, make it false. No recompile neccesary!
Hiram Chirino wrote:
>
> I vote that we make the debug variable true by default. If someone wants to
> optimize his execution, let him recompile. Notice that you should be able
> to still reduce the amount of logging you produce at run time with an MBean
> (It's just that it the logging calls will not be optimized out)
>
> Regards,
> Hiram
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kimpton,C (Chris)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'JBoss-Dev'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 4:50 AM
> Subject: [jBoss-Dev] [VOTE] debug variable - final or not?
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > >
> > > I agree completely and vehemently with Tom. Please don't go backwards,
> > > in deployed systems it must be as easy as possible to turn
> > > trace output
> > > on and off. Recompiling application code is not even an option,
> > > recompiling your app server just to turn on trace is
> > > something that just
> > > can't happen.
> > >
> > > Please put this back. Please. Better yet, make it
> > > configurable from JMX.
> > >
> > > Tom Cook wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, jBoss CVS Development wrote:
> > > >
> > > > [snip]
> > > > > Log:
> > > > > add final clause to debug var
> > > >
> > > > Just out of interest - why? To make it faster? If you
> > > don't make this
> > > > final then you could potentially change it from the JMX web
> > > admin thingy,
> > > > which would be useful in debugging/support...
> > > >
> >
> >
> > Oops - looks like a controversial one...
> >
> >
> > I was assuming that since the debug output was controlled by variable and
> > not just by the jboss.conf logging options that it was very much a
> > development only kind of output. And thus we would want to optimise it
> out
> > at the earliest opportunity in a prod environment - to make that CMP stuff
> > really fly ;-)
> >
> > Maybe I was wrong.
> >
> > I can see that changing it at runtime has some advantages - and I didn't
> > 'twig' that I could just set the flag from my code too - which might be
> > useful...
> >
> > Please vote and I'll amend it accordingly.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
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Dan Christopherson (danch)
nVisia Technical Architect (www.nvisia.com)
Opinions expressed are mine and do not neccessarily reflect any
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