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From: "Geoff Soutter" <geoff@whitewolf.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Custom logs must die
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 11:30:38 +1000
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note that the next release of the Java platform will likely include a
logging api which has it's own XML format.

So if I was you guys I'd ditch any custom XML formats altogether till that
comes out of the JSR process

cheers

Geoff


> On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Alex Chaffee wrote:
> > I agree that would be nice. However, right now, it doesn't do that; it
> > just wraps the whole bloody message in a single tag that happens to be
> > the same as the name of the log file you're in, e.g.
> > <jasper_log> timestamp - blah blah blah </jasper_log>
> >
> > I'm suggesting we kill "custom" and then later maybe add an "xml"
> > format, e.g.
> >
> > <entry>
> >  <date>2000-07-04</data>
> >  <time>23:45:11</time>
> >  <component>ContextManager</component>
> >  <message>something happened</message>
> >  <exception>java.lang.NullPointerException
> > ...stacktrace...
> >  </exception>
> > </entry>
> >
> > but not yet!
> >
> >  - A