RE: Configuration GUI Status

2003-03-25 Thread Richard Bair
I didn't get as much done last night as I had hoped :-(. I'll let y'all know when I have the code in a decent state. Richard __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com ---

RE: Configuration GUI Status

2003-03-24 Thread Oliver Burn
[snip] >> Does someone want to pursue this line with Chainsaw? I think >> we should >> create something/prove its usefulness before requesting Apache/Jakarta >> infrastructure changes. > > That's a sound approach. I wouldn't mind doing the effort for Web > Start, but it does pose two issues: > >

RE: Configuration GUI Status

2003-03-24 Thread Paul Smith
> Well, I would imagine we could get the jnlp MIME type added > to the conf file > on the Jakarta Apache server...:-) One would certainly hope it isn't too much effort for the guy's and gals. > > Does someone want to pursue this line with Chainsaw? I think > we should > create something/prove

RE: Configuration GUI Status

2003-03-24 Thread Mark Womack
st' > Subject: RE: Configuration GUI Status > > > > What is required to host them? Just put the jars somewhere internet > > accessible? It has been a while since I looked at Java Web > > Start, but it > > didn't seem too complicated at the time. > > >

RE: Configuration GUI Status

2003-03-24 Thread Paul Smith
> What is required to host them? Just put the jars somewhere internet > accessible? It has been a while since I looked at Java Web > Start, but it > didn't seem too complicated at the time. > > -Mark Have to modify the MIME types on the server to add the .jnlp (Java Network Launch Protocol), a

RE: Configuration GUI Status

2003-03-24 Thread Mark Womack
rch 24, 2003 3:47 PM > To: 'Log4J Developers List' > Subject: RE: Configuration GUI Status > > > > It sounds like a good start to me. This tool is a definite sandbox > > contender. > > And another candidate for Java Web Start! What's Apache's

RE: Configuration GUI Status

2003-03-24 Thread Paul Smith
> It sounds like a good start to me. This tool is a definite sandbox > contender. And another candidate for Java Web Start! What's Apache's policy on hosting Web start apps? Are the current servers configured to host them? Is any Jakarta project using them? cheers, Paul Smith --

RE: Configuration GUI Status

2003-03-24 Thread Mark Womack
> I thought I'd just through out there a little status update. > I've written > the bulk of the "rough draft" of the configuration gui guts. > I'm working > on the windows right now. Unfortunately, my work situation is > deteriorating rapidly, which is occupying a tremendous amount > of my

Re: Configuration GUI Status

2003-03-24 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 12:24 PM 3/24/2003 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to provide explicit ConfigPanels per appender primarily to provide a mechanism for 3rd party/propriety code to provide a custom, pretty gui. I've also found that generic gui's are usually harder for end user's to understand and use th

Re: Configuration GUI Status

2003-03-24 Thread RBair
n? Where is the code at that does this work? Thanks! Richard Ceki Gülcü <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/24/2003 11:34 AM Please respond to "Log4J Developers List" To: "Log4J Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Log4J Developers List" <[EMA

Re: Configuration GUI Status

2003-03-24 Thread Ceki Gülcü
Hi Richard, Here are my (very) quick comments. At 11:11 AM 3/24/2003 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I'd just through out there a little status update. I've written the bulk of the "rough draft" of the configuration gui guts. I'm working on the windows right now. Unfortunately, my wo

RE: Configuration GUI

2003-03-21 Thread Mark Womack
acorn +1. -Mark > -Original Message- > From: Oliver Burn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 4:02 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Configuration GUI > > > Here are some thoughts: > > gardner - grows things > aborist -

RE: Configuration GUI

2003-03-21 Thread RBair
List" To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject:RE: Configuration GUI Here are some thoughts: gardner - grows things aborist - tree doctor acorn - it is where logs come from grafter - assembles logs clogger - create configuration to generate logs to clog

Re: Configuration GUI

2003-03-21 Thread Ceki Gülcü
The best I can come up with its log4j configurator or just configurator. At 05:19 PM 3/20/2003 -0700, you wrote: Alright, I guess its time to start up a brainstorming session. What should I call this thing? I thought about playing off of "Chainsaw" and "Log". I mean, a log file is chopped up vi

RE: Configuration GUI

2003-03-20 Thread Oliver Burn
Here are some thoughts: gardner - grows things aborist - tree doctor acorn - it is where logs come from grafter - assembles logs clogger - create configuration to generate logs to clog your env ;-) I have a few others that are probably not appropriate. Oliver > "seed" as in where tree's have to

RE: Configuration GUI

2003-03-20 Thread Paul Smith
"seed" as in where tree's have to come from? Or just Log4j Configurator cheers, Paul > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 21 March 2003 11:20 AM > To: Log4J Developers List > Subject: Configuration GUI > > > Alright, I guess its time

RE: Configuration GUI & logging.apache.org

2003-02-24 Thread mwomack
Original Message- > From: Richard Bair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 10:31 AM > To: Log4J Developers List > Subject: RE: Configuration GUI & logging.apache.org > > > Nuts. > > From the feedback this morning it sounds like this w

RE: Configuration GUI & logging.apache.org

2003-02-18 Thread Richard Bair
Nuts. >From the feedback this morning it sounds like this will be an architectural issue for the different log4x groups to sort out together. Which brings up the next question, ETA on when logging.apache.org will be coming around? Really, the config file thing is really a moot point until we hav

RE: Configuration GUI & logging.apache.org

2003-02-18 Thread Shapira, Yoav
Howdy, >We haven't exhaustively checked this out everywhere. I'd like to see in >a logging.apache style project that we standardize on a config file >format (xml is more flexible, is it not?), and also, can we change >log4j.* and log4perl.* to log.*? > >Thoughts? Properties and XML files both h

RE: Configuration GUI & logging.apache.org

2003-02-18 Thread Sean Reilly
ginal Message- > From: Nicko Cadell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 11:49 AM > To: 'Log4J Developers List' > Subject: RE: Configuration GUI & logging.apache.org > > > FYI. Currently log4net only supports an XML config file. Also >

RE: Configuration GUI & logging.apache.org

2003-02-18 Thread Nicko Cadell
FYI. Currently log4net only supports an XML config file. Also it is not 100% compatible with the log4j config file. Some of this is due to different terminology (e.g. using the attribute 'type' rather than 'class' to specify the dynamically loaded object types), and some due to architectural differ

RE: Configuration GUI

2003-02-13 Thread donald larmee
Sorry for chiming in so late on this... but you might look to see what progress has been made in the way of various JMX MBean consoles (MC4J for example) Most of these use the same discussed style of introspection, where the various JMX constructs are introspected dynamically and a UI is re

Re: Configuration GUI

2003-02-13 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 04:23 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Thursday 13 February 2003 03:03, robert burrell donkin wrote: On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 11:35 PM, Richard Bair wrote: BTW, Mark, I'm totally wrong. The java.beans package goes all the way back to 1.2.2 at least.

RE: Open source licensing (was RE: Configuration GUI)

2003-02-13 Thread Ceki Gülcü
None of the people here are official representatives of the foundation. If you prefer a more formal statement ask the Apache board or an Apache official. Viral is perhaps a too harsh a word. Sticky is probably more appropriate. This is my personal opinion only, not the official position of the

RE: Open source licensing (was RE: Configuration GUI)

2003-02-13 Thread Matt Munz
Niclas, Ceki, etc., RE: the GPL. >Unfortunately it is a virus. >1. A virus lives on/in a "host", in this case a software project. >2. It spread from one host to another over a medium or carrier, in this case >by software dependency. Is this an official or otherwise endorsed view of the Apache G

Re: Configuration GUI

2003-02-13 Thread Raymond DeCampo
Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Thursday 13 February 2003 03:03, robert burrell donkin wrote: On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 11:35 PM, Richard Bair wrote: BTW, Mark, I'm totally wrong. The java.beans package goes all the way back to 1.2.2 at least. I think it will work well for what we are doi

Re: Open source licensing (was RE: Configuration GUI)

2003-02-12 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 22:30, Ceki Gülcü wrote: > Having just looked at the LGPL more closely, it may be almost as viral as > the GPL. > > See also http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=10447722553&r=1&w=2 One of the issues with LGPL that I know the Apache people is "on about" is that it is

Re: Configuration GUI

2003-02-12 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Thursday 13 February 2003 03:03, robert burrell donkin wrote: > On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 11:35 PM, Richard Bair wrote: > > > > > BTW, Mark, I'm totally wrong. The java.beans package goes all the way > > back to 1.2.2 at least. I think it will work well for what we are doing > > here.

Re: Open source licensing (was RE: Configuration GUI)

2003-02-12 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Thursday 13 February 2003 00:32, Matt Munz wrote: > All, > > Perhaps I'm dense for looking for a technological solution to an > ideological problem, but can't this be resolved with an abstraction layer? Java is tricky since (L)GPL didn't consider the nature of Java when it was written/updated,

RE: Configuration GUI

2003-02-12 Thread mwomack
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 12:13 PM > To: Log4J Developers List > Subject: RE: Configuration GUI > > > > > At 11:55 12.02.2003 -0800, you wrote: > > > The commons-beanutils package is great. I use it all the time. > > >

RE: Configuration GUI

2003-02-12 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 11:55 12.02.2003 -0800, you wrote: > The commons-beanutils package is great. I use it all the time. > Unfortunately, it depends on the commons-logging API which makes it > unsuitable for use within log4j. Ceki, I understand why this is true for the core log4j classes, but is this also true

RE: Configuration GUI

2003-02-12 Thread mwomack
> The commons-beanutils package is great. I use it all the time. > Unfortunately, it depends on the commons-logging API which makes it > unsuitable for use within log4j. Ceki, I understand why this is true for the core log4j classes, but is this also true for stand alone tools like this proposed

Re: Configuration GUI

2003-02-12 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 11:35 PM, Richard Bair wrote: BTW, Mark, I'm totally wrong. The java.beans package goes all the way back to 1.2.2 at least. I think it will work well for what we are doing here. if you're using java 1.3 (and maybe some earlier versions), you need to be a b

RE: Configuration GUI

2003-02-12 Thread Richard Bair
> Many parts of the java.beans package are JDK 1.4 specific other parts are > date back to JDK 1.1. What do you need to do exactly? By the way, log4j has > its own beans processing tools in o.a.log4j.config package. They are not as > complete as > commons-beanutils but they get the job done (at

RE: Open source licensing (was RE: Configuration GUI)

2003-02-12 Thread Matt Munz
riginal Message- From: Jacob Kjome [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 10:54 AM To: Log4J Developers List Subject: Re: Open source licensing (was RE: Configuration GUI) I guess I'll have to take a closer look myself and digest some of these issues before comme

Re: Open source licensing (was RE: Configuration GUI)

2003-02-12 Thread Jacob Kjome
I guess I'll have to take a closer look myself and digest some of these issues before commenting further. thanks for the pointer to the discussion. Jake At 03:30 PM 2/12/2003 +0100, you wrote: Having just looked at the LGPL more closely, it may be almost as viral as the GPL. See also http:/

Re: Open source licensing (was RE: Configuration GUI)

2003-02-12 Thread Ceki Gülcü
Having just looked at the LGPL more closely, it may be almost as viral as the GPL. See also http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=10447722553&r=1&w=2 At 08:14 12.02.2003 -0600, you wrote: Hi Ceki, I concur with your sentiments. I don't know the details of Apache's dislike for the LGPL licence

Open source licensing (was RE: Configuration GUI)

2003-02-12 Thread Jacob Kjome
Hi Ceki, I concur with your sentiments. I don't know the details of Apache's dislike for the LGPL licence but, on the face of it, it seems just silly. It is obvious to anyone and everyone what intent an author has when he/she puts their library under LGPL. It is meant to be freely useable a

RE: Configuration GUI

2003-02-12 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 16:28 11.02.2003 -0700, Richard Bair wrote: I initially tried to use beanutils for the project, and to some extent it worked well. I just found after 3 or 4 refactorings that the stuff that was bundled with Java was much better suited to what I was trying to do. I can look at it again for thi

RE: Configuration GUI

2003-02-12 Thread Ceki Gülcü
it. > > Regards, > Oliver > > > -Original Message- > > From: Richard Bair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, 12 February 2003 09:08 > > To: Log4J Developers List > > Subject: RE: Configuration GUI > > > > > > The cool thin

RE: Configuration GUI

2003-02-11 Thread Oliver Burn
LOL! I think we just answered each others questions. :-) > -Original Message- > From: Mark Womack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, 12 February 2003 10:36 > To: 'Log4J Developers List' > Subject: RE: Configuration GUI > > > [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: Configuration GUI

2003-02-11 Thread Oliver Burn
, Oliver > -Original Message- > From: Richard Bair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, 12 February 2003 10:24 > To: Log4J Developers List > Subject: RE: Configuration GUI > > > That's good to know. Since I'm the sole author of the guibuilder code,

Re: Configuration GUI

2003-02-11 Thread Richard Bair
Ya, that's more or less how I'm doing it for my guibuilder. I tried to stick as close to the api as possible. It allows for plugins pretty well. I guess I only used the PropertyEditor for editors that I was going to call from my property sheet, but the same interface should work here as well. B

RE: Configuration GUI

2003-02-11 Thread Mark Womack
; -Original Message- > From: Richard Bair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 3:24 PM > To: Log4J Developers List > Subject: RE: Configuration GUI > > > That's good to know. Since I'm the sole author of the > guibuilder code, &

RE: Configuration GUI

2003-02-11 Thread Richard Bair
> > The one drawback I see with going this route is that creating a really > > generic tool sometimes means that the user interface isn't as > > intuitive. > > > > For instance, I think it would make for a cleaner UI to > > provide the user > > of a FileAppender a checkbox for bufferedIO and App

RE: Configuration GUI

2003-02-11 Thread Richard Bair
> -Original Message- > > From: Richard Bair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, 12 February 2003 09:08 > > To: Log4J Developers List > > Subject: RE: Configuration GUI > > > > > > The cool thing about this idea is that we'd

Re: Configuration GUI

2003-02-11 Thread Raymond DeCampo
Richard Bair wrote: The cool thing about this idea is that we'd be able to set properties for any given appender without the need of a ton of custom code. I'm in the process of building a guibuilder right now as well, so reflection and property sheets are almost second nature ;-) The one drawbac

RE: Configuration GUI

2003-02-11 Thread Oliver Burn
of using LGPL code, when the Log4J project may not be able to use it. Regards, Oliver > -Original Message- > From: Richard Bair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, 12 February 2003 09:08 > To: Log4J Developers List > Subject: RE: Configuration GUI > > > T

RE: Configuration GUI

2003-02-11 Thread Mark Womack
> -Original Message- > From: Richard Bair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 2:13 PM > To: Log4J Developers List > Subject: RE: Configuration GUI > > > Mark, > > Should I build the basic app, and then submit it to sandbox, or start >

RE: Configuration GUI

2003-02-11 Thread Mark Womack
> The one drawback I see with going this route is that creating a really > generic tool sometimes means that the user interface isn't as > intuitive. > > For instance, I think it would make for a cleaner UI to > provide the user > of a FileAppender a checkbox for bufferedIO and Append, and a spi

RE: Configuration GUI

2003-02-11 Thread Richard Bair
Mark, Should I build the basic app, and then submit it to sandbox, or start building it there from the get-go? Richard On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 14:38, Mark Womack wrote: > I'd like to see a tool that performs reflection on the various classes to > let you know what parameters can be set. So, if I c

RE: Configuration GUI

2003-02-11 Thread Richard Bair
The cool thing about this idea is that we'd be able to set properties for any given appender without the need of a ton of custom code. I'm in the process of building a guibuilder right now as well, so reflection and property sheets are almost second nature ;-) The one drawback I see with going th

RE: Configuration GUI

2003-02-11 Thread Mark Womack
I'd like to see a tool that performs reflection on the various classes to let you know what parameters can be set. So, if I chose to add a FileAppender, the list of configuration options would be gathered by looking at the property setter methods defined in that class. I remember someone mentioni

RE: Configuration GUI

2003-02-11 Thread Oliver Burn
Hi, A random thought, but I would endeavour to keep the internal representation of the configuration independent of the external representation. That way it is possible to support multiple external formats. You have mentioned XML and properties files. I know that the Jalopy source code formatter