Hi!
This is not an advertisement
thread, but more of an advice thread...
We all (well most of us I hope) find logging the best way to debug our web pages in the long run... So whic loggers do you use?
I mean you can use the default logger, but the directory grows so huge and becomes no longer maintainable...
So can you tell me what you guys use and more important WHY you use it?
I've heard of log4j being popular... what makes it so popular? What about JLogger? What about Velocity (is it even a logger?)?
I am asking this cause I am working on a logger that I myself could use... I am talking about
http://ivjlogger.sourceforge.net/ So far I targeted:
- Simplicity (achieved -1 line of code to init 1 line to log 0 to cleanup)
- Performance (bckg thread pool with min priority threads... still work fast)
- Maintability (monthly & yearly ZIP archives)
- Maintability #2 (HTML logs that are easy to view)
- Extensibility (extremely simple design & tutorial on how to extend it)
Can somebody suggest why would I use log4j? I've seen some apps that use it and they ahve external XMLs that configure it and stuff... do you really have to do that just to log some text?
Please let me know
what logger you use an
why you use it...