That seems like a reasonable approach to me.  Those appenders should only stop 
when the background thread stops.

Ralph

> On Jun 17, 2015, at 12:52 AM, Mikael Ståldal <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Would it make sense to allow AsyncAppender to have dynamically created 
> delegate appenders (and not only AppenderRefs)? And initialize those delegate 
> appenders in AsyncAppender's background thread?
> 
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Mikael Ståldal <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Yes, this is related to an appender hanging or throwing an exception on start 
> up.
> 
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Gary Gregory <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Mikael,
> 
> Is this related to an appender hanging or throwing an (unchecked) exception 
> on start up?
> 
> Gary
> 
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Ralph Goers <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> The Appenders used by the AsyncAppender are known at configuration time. So 
> starting and stopping them in conjunction when the configuration is 
> initialized makes sense (and makes managing them easier).  The Appenders 
> created by the RoutingAppender are dynamic - the number of them and their 
> configuration is not completely known at configuration time.  They are 
> created based upon the events that are being processed. This makes managing 
> them a bit harder.
> 
> Note that when FileConfigurationMonitor detects a configuration change it 
> starts a new Thread to perform the reconfiguration, so I am not sure what you 
> are hoping to gain by configuring Appenders asynchronously. 
> 
> Ralph
> 
> 
>> On Jun 16, 2015, at 7:17 AM, Mikael Ståldal <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> I want to create / initializte the delegates of an AsyncAppender 
>> asynchronously, to protect the application from exceptions and delays in 
>> delegate appender initialization. Is that possible with routing appender?
>> 
>> (See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1043 
>> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1043> )
>> 
>> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Remko Popma <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> You could have a routing appender as the delegate of an async appender.
>> 
>> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 10:01 PM, Mikael Ståldal <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Is is possible to have the delegate(s) of AsyncAppender created dynamically, 
>> just like the delegates of RoutingAppender?
>> 
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