January Jakarta Newsletter - log4j

2003-02-09 Thread mwomack
I put this together for the January Jakarta newsletter. If you have any comments, please let me know. I figured I would give folks here a chance to comment before sending it to Rob Oxspring for release. -Mark Log4j - a fast and flexible framework for logging application debugging mes

RE: Where can I help?

2003-02-09 Thread Mark Womack
I'm not a big gui/swing person, so I don't think I can lend much code or advice on that front, but I would like to help with the adding remote sources via a gui. At least as defining these via a gui plugin mechanism. I have not had a chance to look at it very hard, but it sounds like the commons-d

RE: Where can I help?

2003-02-09 Thread Oliver Burn
May be once or twice. :-) I'd like to see preferences stored to support: - Store the GUI settings. I.e. window size, column widths - Make the columns to display selectable. So for example, to choose whether to display the NDC column. Oliver > -Original Message- > From: Mark Womack [m

RE: Where can I help?

2003-02-09 Thread Mark Womack
My Chainsaw wish list: - ability to sort messages by various columns (sort by time with most recent at bottom instead of top, sort by level, logger, etc) - ability to filter by MDC key/values, filter by multiple category/level names, maybe just let me define my own filter chain? - ability to confi

RE: Where can I help?

2003-02-09 Thread Oliver Burn
Hi Raymond, I am the original author of Chainsaw. I have lots of ideas on how to improve Chainsaw, but due to time constraints I have basically taken on the role of maintainer. I will fix any reported bugs, and endeavour to incorporate patches. I also have dialogue with some people who would like

Re: Where can I help?

2003-02-09 Thread Raymond DeCampo
Thanks for the suggestions. I think I'll give some effort towards improving Chainsaw. Toward that end, when I was trying to get Chainsaw going today, I noticed that it is not compatible with output from earlier XMLLayout output that use "category" instead of "logger". Was this intentional or