[logback-user] Just started playing with logback

[Anders Hammar]

Hi Rob,

Thanks for sharing. However, as with all open source projects, the
biggest chance of getting issues fixed is to file a bug report. There
might even be a bug report for the problem you've run into (as there
is for the FileAppender thing you describe, see enhancement
LBCORE-42). You find the link to logback Jira on the home page.

/Anders, logback user

> I have a few comments for you. First, the log4j properties translator
> ( http://logback.qos.ch/translator/Welcome.do ) does not quite work.
> Maybe it's based on an old version and is now out of date, but you
> should think about updating it. The file it produced did not
> translate my properties that I used in log4j.properties to specify
> the log file path into the equivalent substitutionProperty elements,
> and it did not translate the Levels I had set on the log4j appenders.
> It did wrap them in Threshold elements, but the current XML schema
> wants these specified in a "filter" element on the appender. Also, it
> did not translate the settings for the rolling file appender into the
> FileNamePattern element. However, the Joran configurator gave me
> detailed enough Exception messages that it was easy to determine what
> the problems were and fix them.
>
> Also, on Chapter 3 of the current Logback documentation manual, when
> it discusses variable substitution it mentions  "Recursive
> Substitution." Well, if you re-read that section carefully I think
> you'll agree that this example is in fact NOT doing any kind of
> *recursion*, it is just using multiple variables. They are not even
> being nested. So I would suggest calling it something other than
> "recursion." The people that will read this manual are programmers,
> and we all know (or should know ) what recursion is, and I think this
> will just confuse people.
>
> I also have a question about functionality. The only difference
> between log4j and logback that I have noticed so far is a different
> behavior between the way each will create the log file (for a
> FileAppender) if it does not yet exist. In log4j when I specified a
> full path, it would also create the directory for the log file if it
> did not already exist. Logback does not create the directory, it
> throws an exception. So I will have to add this to my Java code, but
> it smells a little fishy to have to configure where the logs are
> created in two different contexts, one in my application (by creating
> the directory), one in the logback configuration file.
>
> Maybe you can give me a good reason for why this new way is better,
> or maybe it's just an oversight and it has not been implemented yet?
>
> I was wondering what your thoughts were about this?
>
> Thank you for your great work on creating some great logging
> frameworks that really provide useful functionality for Java programs!
>
>
> Rob Ross, Lead Software Engineer
> E! Networks
>
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