CHAPTER 2
Understanding Apache log4j
The Apache log4j implementation is a highly scalable, robust, and versatile logging framework. This API simplifies the writing of logging code within an application, yet allows the flexibility of controlling logging activity from an external configuration file. It also allows us to publish logging information to desired granularity depending on the detail of the logging information suitable to each application.
We can tailor the granularity of logging activity suitable for the development phase or the deployment phase of an application without having to change the source code. It is possible to switch over ...
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