Re: Network logging for Java desktop application

Do you really want to make your application's reliability and  
performance
dependent on the health of the network logging mechanism? If

Call me conservative but I would much prefer to log locally and use a
decoupled mechanism for log file aggregation. Capistrano, for example
can make this trivial across OSes.

Peter

On Oct 19, 2007, at 10:41 AM, Frank Harper wrote:

> I have a java desktop application that is installed locally on users
> machines via Java Web Start, and would like to centralize the  
> logging to
> facilitate diagnosing bugs.
>
> The app uses the standard java logging framework that comes with J2SE.
> Apparently with this logging framework the standard way to do network
> logging is to use java.util.logging.SocketHandler. I couldn't find any
> complete examples on the Web, and the documentation is completely  
> mute about
> what should be running on the server side to collect the  
> information sent by
> SocketHandler.
>
> So, have any of you done network logging in Java, and what software  
> did you
> use? Did you use J2SE+SocketHandler, classic unix syslog, Log4J, or
> something better/different? And in particular what software did you  
> run on
> the log server?
>
> Thanks
>   Frank
>
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