RE: WatchDog & Plugins

[Ceki Gülcü <ce...@qos.ch>]

Hi Mark,

What is the state of the work on plug-ins and watchdogs? A short
description would be sufficient. I'd like to help if I can.

At 07:41 PM 4/21/2003 -0700, mwomack@apache.org wrote:
>Paul,
>
>Well...there has been a lot of discussion about this topic previously ("...I
>remember when I joined the log4j email list and I had to wade through that
>watchdog email thread, up hill, both ways...").  And it was pre-plugins.
>
>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=102264999800003&r=1&w=2
>
>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=102282119300003&r=1&w=2
>
>My thinking right now is to create a base Watchdog class based on Plugin,
>similar to how it is done right now for Receiver.  Then, build on top of
>that base class in a fashion similar to the what is discussed above.  The
>end result will be a set of classes that support watching a file, an http
>url, or a socket.  And hopefully some useful base classes that can be used
>by developers to develop versions to watch other sources as well.
>
>I think I am going to start looking at it tonight (almost over a year after
>I suggested it...).  So, some discussion of it will be good.
>
>-Mark

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