Hi, The above example works like a charm, thanks a lot! Does anyone know why this has been removed from log4cxx 0.10.0 ?
Ruud On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Ruud Bos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks! > > The only thing is that the SocketNode class seems to be removed in 0.10.0 > I will try with 0.9.7 > > Ruud > > > > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 1:47 PM, rizwan khalid < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Hi >> >> Few months back Amit Sarna sent me a working example for client/server >> loggers. It uses SockeAppender but it should be easily converted to >> XMLSocketAppender. Below i am pasting the Amit's email which will help >> you in building the sample attached with this mail... >> >> Hi Rizwan, >> >> Sorry for delayed response. This is my work e-mail so can't see it on >> weekends. I've attached the source and config files in a .RAR file. It's a >> very simple example but enough to show how to do a client and a server. I >> haven't included make files because our makefiles use a lot of environment >> vars specific to our app but if you can't get it compiling i can try and >> rustle one up for you tonight. >> >> >> >> The config files should be in the same directory as the executables. When >> you've compiled both, run the server first, then run the client. This should >> produce two log files, the client one should log as expected, and the server >> one should log it's own stuff and also messages sent from the client app. >> >> >> >> If you need any explanation on anything drop me a mail and i'll do my best >> :-) >> >> >> >> Cheers >> >> Amit >> >> >> -- >> Rizwan Khalid >> Phone: +92 021 2781592 >> 14th Floor, National IT Park, Shahra-e-Faisal >> Karachi, Pakistan >> >> >> >> >> --------- Original message -------- >> From: "Curt Arnold" >> To: "Log4CXX User" >> Subject: [SPAM] Re: Server side socket usage >> Date: 05-16-08 01:17 >> >> >> On May 15, 2008, at 9:45 AM, Ruud Bos wrote: >> >> > Hello, >> > >> > I'm new to the list, so I have no idea if this question has been >> > asked many times before. I hope someone can put me in the right >> > direction. >> > >> > I'd like to use log4cxx for two applications. One acts as a client >> > that needs to send it's logging to a server application using socket >> > communication. Both programs are written in C++. >> > >> > From the few things I could find on the internet about the use of >> > the ServerSocket class, I was not able to create something that >> > works. Most of these only talk about the client side and use the >> > java substitute log4j for the server side. >> > >> > If someone could point me to some example code, that would be >> > extremely helpful. >> > >> > Thanks in advance, >> > Ruud >> > >> >> >> log4cxx 0.9.7 came with an implementation of both the client and >> server side for SocketAppender, but used its own format that was not >> platform independent. So if the sender and receiver differed in >> endianness, character type, int length or the like, bad things would >> happen. >> >> log4cxx 0.10.0 replaced that with an implementation that produced a >> stream format compatible with log4j's format (the Java serialization >> of its LoggingEvent class). This allows interoperability with >> Chainsaw and eliminated the platform variation of the format. >> >> There is a huge degree of variability allowed with Java serialization >> so it is much easier to write a logging event that can be read by Java >> serialization than reliably read a logging event written by Java >> serialization. You could write code that read log4cxx's specific take >> on it, but that would be unlikely to reliably read events from log4j. >> >> If you were going to receive events from log4cxx, I would suggest >> using the XMLSocketAppender as the format would require less custom >> code to parse the stream format. I'm sorry, but I'm not aware of any >> sample code for it. >> >> >> >
