append() and connection establishment

[Robert Fischer <tr...@trispace.org>]

Hi,

i'm developing a custom appender/receiver for the current SVN version of 
log4j. My problem is that establishing a connection to the remote server is 
quite time consuming, so the user has to wait a few seconds before sending a 
LoggingEvent. I've separated the connection process into a new thread but now 
my question is what's the "good practice" in log4j to adress this kind of 
problem:

- blocking the first append() call until the connection is established? IMHO 
not very comfortable for the user

- routing incoming LoggingEvents through a RingBuffer like the SMTPAppender 
does?

- switching the "active" field to "false" until the connection is established 
and let the user poll for isActive()?

Questions over questions :)

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