[logback-dev] Lumberjack infos - was: Re: Logback Chainsaw Bridge

[Ceki Gulcu]

Maarten Bosteels wrote:
  > Ceki, any plans on adding a AsyncAppender to LogBack ?

Yes, it will be added in one of the next releases. It's more a question of when 
than if.

> I have also thought about gzipping the events, with MINA this would be very easy
> http://mina.apache.org/report/1.1/apidocs/org/apache/mina/filter/CompressionFilter.html

Java's object stream protocol is already pretty optimized. Thus, I am not sure 
compression would make a big difference, although it is worth testing.
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