Great idea. Had a quick look, and saw the ObjectOutputStream (I have not looked at the SocketAppender) and thought; why?
Text output would be much more practical. Telnet to the port, and the log messages arrives, formatted and ready... Am I missing something here? Niclas Mark Womack wrote: >Enclosed is a new appender, ServerSocketAppender.java. Please consider it >for inclusion in the log4j project. If there are concerns with the source >or design, please let me know so I can correct them. > >ServerSocketAppender borrows heavily from the SocketAppender, and the code >will look remarkably the same. But instead of connecting to a remote >socket, ServerSocketAppender creates a ServerSocket object and then accepts >any number of connections by remote clients. When a log event is to be >appended, the event is sent to the set of current connections. If an error >is encountered sending the event, the connection is dropped. No attempt is >made to reconnect since it is the responsibility of the client to make the >connection to begin with. > >Why ServerSocketAppender? If you have a group of developers accessing the >same logging event source server, each one will need their own >SocketAppender defined to pump log events to their client. Add another >developer, add another SocketAppender. With ServerSocketAppender, you set >up the appender once, let everyone know the port number and then have their >clients connect to it when ever they want to. It is always there, ready to >send you log events. It also conserves socket ports since you only need one >port instead of a port per SocketAppender. > >I am working on modifications to Chainsaw so that it can actively initiate >connections with ServerSocketAppenders instead of only passively accept >connections from SocketAppenders. Then you could use it to connect to any >number of sources. > >If you have any questions, or concerns, please let me know. > >thanks, >-Mark > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ServerSocketAppender.java > > Content-Type: > > application/octet-stream > Content-Encoding: > > quoted-printable > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.3 > > Content-Type: > > text/plain > >
