Welcome to the home of Chainsaw v2!
Chainsaw v2 is a companion application to Log4j written by members of the Log4j development community. Like a number of Open Source projects, this new version was built upon inspirations, ideas and creations of others. Chainsaw v2 has it's roots from the original Chainsaw utility written by Oliver Burn, and with inspiration from the Log Factor 5 utility contributed by ThoughtWorks Inc.
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If you haven't got Java Web Start installed, then try this zipped distribution. [Download]
It's a GUI-based Log viewer. A picture tells a thousand words...
These screen shots were taken on Windows 2000, running Sun JDK 1.4.2.
Rather than rely on a combination of tail/grep/vi or equivalent to view/query/trace-through a huge trail of logging events, you can use Chainsaw. Chainsaw can read log files formatted in Log4j's XMLLayout, receive events from remote locations, read events from a DB, it can even work with the JDK 1.4 logging events.
Heres just a brief run down of some of the features of Chainsaw v2:
"LOGGER == 'com.mycompany' && LEVEL == ERROR"
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Otherwise, if the above link does not work, then you will need to check out the jakarta-log4j module from the Apache CVS server to build and run Chainsaw v2. To make this easier, we have created an installation Ant script, you can download this by clicking here.
You will need the following installed to utilise this installation script:
Once you have downloaded and placed this script in a directory where you want Chainsaw v2 installed, you can type:
ant -f install-chainsaw.xml
This will download everything you need to build and run Chainsaw v2.
When finally released, we plan to have Chainsaw v2 available via Java WebStart.
If you launched via Java Web Start, you should be ROCKING! However, if you have used the above installer, you can cd
to tho jakarta-log4j
sub-directory and
type:
ant chainsaw
Chainsaw v2 will be built and run!
Chainsaw already includes help with with a Quick Reference and a Tutorial to get you started, all viewable from within the GUI!. A User Manual will be made available around release time.