[logback-user] Local/Remote config management at runtime

[Ceki Gulcu]

Hello Paul,

This is a good idea. There is no reason why should  not be able to accomplish 
this on your own. You can invoke Joran at any time passing the configuration 
file as reference to a file, a file name, any input stream including 
StringInputStream, or a list of SAXEvents.

If you wish to change one or two aspects in the logging environment (logger 
level, change the layout of a given appender) you could also apply the changes 
programmatically without going through Joran.

Cheers,

Paul G wrote:
> We have a requirement that we would like to centrally manage logging
> configuration files and push these out to applications as and when needed.
> 
> So my questions are.
> Is it possible to reconfigure using Joran at runtime rather than one at
> initialisation time, are there any potential side effects?  
> 
> It would be fairly simple to write some code to listen for JMS or on a port
> to receive a message which would receive a Logback configuration, but would
> would be the message format? A logback configuration xml file how do then
> then pass that into Joran?
> 
> The sending on messages is no problem as we would just create our own
> appender or use something like JMS appender to centralise log data
> collection.
> 
> Any ideas would be great?
> 
> Cheers
> Paul 

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