JPA is heavy weight compared to JDBC. It seems like overkill. Gary
On Apr 25, 2013, at 14:12, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > Rather than a JDBC appender I was hoping for a more generic appender that > could use JPA or something else. > > > On Apr 25, 2013, at 7:39 AM, Nicholas Williams wrote: > >> 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. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-dev-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-dev-h...@logging.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-dev-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-dev-h...@logging.apache.org
