First, a quick question: do we anticipate the next version to be beta6 or rc1? Just curious.
I'm currently working on cleaning up compiler warnings throughout the project and should have that completed soon. I want to go ahead and get the conversation started about database appenders. I'd like to see two appenders: - A JdbcAppender that is capable of logging to any RDBMS for which there is a JDBC driver. - A MongoAppender that is capable of logging to a MongoDB database. The JdbcAppender and MongoAppender would, as far as I can tell, need properties for mapping all of the possible logging event properties to table columns (or Mongo equivalent). I don't really see any other way to accomplish that. We could use layout patterns from the PatternLayout to achieve this: <column name="columnName" pattern="PatternLayout equivalent-pattern" /> I imagine the JdbcAppender having mutually exclusive properties for JDBC URL/username/password, DataSource JNDI URL, and class.staticFactoryMethod for obtaining a DataSource. The MongoAppender would similarly have mutually exclusive properties for connection information and class.statucFactoryMethod for obtaining a Mongo instance. I'd like to take a stab at these after I complete fixing compiler warnings, and wanted to start getting feedback/ideas and also see if anyone has use cases for other NoSQL appenders.
