org.apache.log
Interface LogTarget

All Known Subinterfaces:

FilterTarget

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractFilterTarget, AbstractTarget, LF5LogTarget

public interface LogTarget

LogTarget is a class to encapsulate outputting LogEvent's. This provides the base for all output and filter targets. Warning: If performance becomes a problem then this interface will be rewritten as a abstract class.

Author:

Peter Donald

Method Summary

void	processEvent(LogEvent event) Process a log event.

Method Detail

processEvent

public void processEvent(LogEvent event)

Process a log event. In NO case should this method ever throw an exception/error. The reason is that logging is usually added for debugging/auditing purposes and it would be unnaceptable to have your debugging code cause more errors.

Parameters:

event - the event