[logback-dev] What is the most efficient way - preferrably platform agnostic - to submit events from "the outside"?

[Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen]

Joern Huxhorn skrev:
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> I tried to provide some explanations and background informations about 
> the way my multiplex appender is working.
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Could you say why you've named it multiplex appender?  I've missed it if 
you said it already?  Perhaps because it can send to multiple receivers?


> http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/lilith/wiki/MultiplexAppenderBackground
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> Additionally, I collected some pitfalls of other appenders.
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> http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/lilith/wiki/AppenderPitfalls
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> I'm not sure if I succeeded in explaining the complexity of my 
> appender but I tried my best, for sure ;)
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If I understand your writeup correctly there are three basic issues you 
are dealing with:

* detecting if a receiver goes away
* flattening events at the proper time to ensure that the contents is 
right when deserialized
* buffering events to ensure the application can run at full speed 
independently from the speed of the receivers

The first one, should it be enough to detect a broken TCP/IP connection?

I am still pondering on a language agnostic receiver.   The reason for 
the XML being uninteresting was because it was much more verbose than 
the plain serialised byte object?  Would a sufficiently terse 
xml-dialect be interesting?  I was thinking of having one-character node 
names and attribute names? (and moving the namespace outside the fragments).

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