Oh, I forgot to mention that if you wanted to have your project hosted within logback at qos.ch, that is also possible. Ceki Gulcu wrote:
Hello Russell,
Obviously, it would be nice if your contribution became part of the default installation. However, your contribution can be helpful even if it is not part of the default Geronimo distribution.
Implementing accessing-logging with log4j would not be easy. I think you would end up rewriting log4j which is presumably not your intention.
Notwithstanding the license issue, I still think you can have sweet deal. Here is how I see it.
- Write a GBean with the jetty/logback-access extension. - Create a project in sourceforge to host it. - Add one page documentation on installing your GBean in Geronimo. - Locally, you would distribute your own version of Geronimo (with your extension already installed). You would then install that version in your farm.
(The above is just an indication.)
Many log4j extensions are not hosted in log4j. The same is true for logback. It's nice if an extension becomes part of the main distribution but it does not have to.
HTH,
-- Ceki Gülcü Logback: The reliable, generic, fast and flexible logging framework for Java. http://logback.qos.ch