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Wed, 07 October 2009 17:11

Eclipse User

I tried to search for related posts, but those keywords produce many hits that have nothing to do with my question...

We're considering dropping log4j and using the Eclipse logging. The viewer is nicer and makes the logs easier for the user to review (if they ever want to). But that only covers the "Application Log" -- errors we might want to report to the user about what happens with the application. How do folks typically handle "developer logs" -- entry/exit, typical debug messages, etc.? Don't really want to mix them in with the other stuff and there are only a few severity levels available (and we didn't see anything that would qualify as debug/trace nor levels for those -- ala log4j).

Thanks...Millard

Re: Logging and Tracing? [message #490249 is a reply to message #490213]

Thu, 08 October 2009 01:18

Eclipse User

Millard Ellingsworth wrote:
> application. How do folks typically handle "developer logs" --
> entry/exit, typical debug messages, etc.?

The .options file and Platform.inDebugMode()

- Prakash

Platform UI Team, IBM
http://blog.eclipse-tips.com

Re: Logging and Tracing? [message #491508 is a reply to message #490249]

Wed, 14 October 2009 16:06

Eclipse User

This was useful, thanks.

For anyone else that may wonder about this and find this post, one thing I did trip over was forgetting to add my .options file to the binary build -- so it looked like none of it worked until I straightened that one out.

Two best references I found were:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/06/0221_r ossner/index.html

http://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_use_the_platform_debug_ tracing_facility%3F

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