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

[Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen]

Ralph Goers skrev:
> I think I've lost the point of this discussion somewhere.  The subject 
> says something about submitting events remotely yet this discussion 
> seems to be totally about serialization. If it is really about 
> something like a "service" to submit events than I would suggest 
> looking at Spring remoting and some of the protocols it supports - 
> such as Hessian or Burlap.  I would argue that a discussion about how 
> best to serialize an object is pointless without having first decided 
> on what the service API is. For example, are you presuming that one 
> system will log to an Appender that will forward to a server that will 
> turn around and log the event again? Or perhaps an Appender would just 
> forward the event to an Appender on the remote system?  Or, using 
> Spring Remoting one could imagine that the local Appender is just a 
> client stub generated by Spring forwarding to the "real" Appender 
> somewhere else.
I think the reason was that I asked Jörn to share his experiences with 
the appenders in Lilith and that I could not understand his conclusion :)

What I am trying to get to is a simple way to "magically" transport a 
logging event from one instance of logback to another, where it would be 
processed with filters etc as any other event originated on the instance 
itself.  The platform agnosticity implies that Java serialization is not 
trivial to use, hence the discussion with Jörn...

Would Spring Remoting imply that Java is required?

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