Does log4cxx SocketHubAppender work with Chainsaw ?

[Steve <kf...@gmail.com>]

Chainsaw connects to my SocketHubAppender and then immediately drops the
connection. There were some old posts regarding this issue. I was wondering if
this has been fixed/implemented ? Thanks.

Re: Does log4cxx SocketHubAppender work with Chainsaw ?

[Curt Arnold <ca...@apache.org>]

On Feb 15, 2007, at 6:26 PM, Steve wrote:

> Chainsaw connects to my SocketHubAppender and then immediately  
> drops the
> connection. There were some old posts regarding this issue. I was  
> wondering if
> this has been fixed/implemented ? Thanks.

I believe there is still a problem and I do not know any work that  
has been done on the issue.  I believe the XmlSocketAppender does  
work with Chainsaw.  The plain binary socket appenders did not  
attempt to mimic the binary format used by log4j (which is the Java  
serialization format of the LoggingEvent class).  For years, I've had  
on my to-do list to document the binary layout of the serialization  
of LoggingEvent, but I've never been quite that bored.  Actually, it  
is something that you'd have to devote uninterrupted time and that  
has been rare for me.  Once you understood the layout of the log4j's  
serialization of LoggingEvent, you could likely modify log4cxx to  
write out the same stuff.