Would it be possible to use Apache Chainsaw viewer in my Java project that's in Eclipse?

Question

I'm wondering if Chainsaw is too old for Eclipse? The java project i'm working on is using JDK 1.5 .

Does it need to be compatible with Eclipse? because I did find another log -viewer called LogViewer.

Answer 1

Chainsaw V2 is a standalone app that can be used with JDK 1.5 just fine - if you mean using a socketappender, assuming the version of log4j you are sending with matches the version Chainsaw uses (log4j 1.2.x).

If you don't want to use a socketappender, you can use a fileappender - it's much easier - in the Chainsaw config screen, point it to your log4j.properties or log4j.xml containing a fileappender, and it will build the correct configuration to tail your log file.

The Chainsaw V2 available from the website is really old - the latest Chainsaw V2 developer snapshot is available here: http://people.apache.org/~sdeboy