Re: Nuke XInvoke & XSyslog?

peter-4lf8KW9E9MLMqX/[email protected] Mon, 8 Dec 2003 12:20:12 +1100
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From: "Johan Sj=F6berg" <johan.sjoberg-KK16lzWueydWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [spice-dev] Nuke XInvoke & XSyslog?


> Peter Donald wrote:
>
> >Essentially all id did was read in an xml configuration file, build a
metadata
> >representation of configuration, validate the configuration and then
create a
> >set of Loggers for specified metadata. It was kind of like an enhanced
> >Excalibur-Logger that could target multiple output Loggers (ie could
> >configure JDK Logging or LogKit depending on provider) and it was much
> >"safer" (ie xml schemas would be used to validate configuration and th=
e
> >metadata validated the inter-logger setup etc.
> >
> >
> OK, not bad. What did you create it for?

Essentially because I wanted to replace Excalibur-Logger with something t=
hat
was well unit tested and validated configurations etc. I got bitten way t=
oo
many times because I had buggered up the configuration and I wanted the
toolkit to tell me when I had misconfigured the app.