Here is my proposed plan for the next major log4j release. As customary, there is no scheduled release date. It will be ready when it is ready. Your comments and suggestions are most welcome.
| Label | Comment | Volunteer | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| More test cases | We need more automated test cases to catch bugs as early is possible.It is highly recommended to add a new test case with each new feature or component. | All committers | ongoing effort |
| Removal of deprecated methods | Deprecated setOption and getOption
method should be removed. |
Ceki | done |
| JDBCAppender | We currently have two competing JDBCAppenders: one by
Thomas Fenner and the other by Kevin Steppe. We should try
to get both authors to collaborate.
We must be careful not to dismiss an implementation without proper testing and due study. We should include at least of one of these implemetation in the standard log4j distribution. |
? | not started |
| Log4j in applets | In order to minimize network traffic, the size of log4j-core.jar
needs to be reduced to at most 50KB.
Log4jME has been released. It's less than 20KB. |
Ceki | done |
| Improved documentation | Log4j documentation needs to be enhanced with configuration examples and much more hand-holding. | Ceki | under discussion |
| Mapped Diagnostic Contexts | Mapped Diagnostic Contexts are similar to the NDC
except that the MDC is a string to string map instead of
a stack that the user sets when entering a special
context. The PatternLayout has to be
enhanced to support this by extending the %x pattern to
accept an argument. Here is an example:
ConversionPattern=3D%d %p %c %x{server} %x{host} - %m%n
User code:
{
MDC.put("server", "totoServer");
MDC.put("host", "someHost");
cat.debug("Hello");
}
will print:
2000-01-24 10:00:00,000 DEBUG totoServer someHost - Hello To make MDCs truly user friendly | Ceki | done |
| Enhanced variable substitution support in DOMConfigurator | Ceki | done | |
| FallbackErrorHandler | The FallbackErrorHandler implements the ErrorHandler
interface such that a secondary appender may be
specified. This secondary appender takes over if the primary
appender fails for whatever reason.
The DOMConfigurator needs to be extended to support the FallbackErrorHandler |
Ceki | implemented, requires further testing |
| Review of the configure and watch architecture in configurators | This is a very useful feature and the current architecture is not very good.
Contributions have been received by Mark Womack and others. See
|
? | not yet started |