[logback-user] How to log FROM an appender?

[TJ Rothwell]

I'm curious: what use-case is fulfilled by the additional messages
generated by the appender?

-- TJ

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Steve Cohen <scohen at javactivity.org> wrote:

> On 11/12/2011 04:14 PM, Steve Cohen wrote:
>
>> We have a custom appender that may itself need to issue logging
>> statements. But placing a logger in such a class causes various
>> exceptions on initialization and loading. So we are resorting to
>> System.out.println for lack of a better solution.
>>
>> I suppose there must be a better way.
>> What would that be?
>>
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>>  A technique that seems to work is to NOT declare a logger in the
> Appender class that you want to use one from, but instead create a static
> logger instance somewhere that is accessible through static methods.  That
> way the logger does not need to be created at the time of appender
> instantiation.
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