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| <author email="BMarlborough@thoughtworks.com">Brad Marlborough</author> |
| <title>LogFactor5 Users' Guide</title> |
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| <section name="LogFactor5 Overview"> |
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| <p><b>What is LogFactor5?</b> - LogFactor5 is a Swing based GUI |
| that leverages the power of log4j logging framework and |
| provides developers with a sophisticated, feature-rich, |
| logging interface for managing log messages. |
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| <p><b>How does it work?</b> - LogFactor5 seamlessly plugs into |
| log4j and provides developers with an alternate destination |
| for outputting messages. </p> |
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| <p><b>Benefits:</b></p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Quickly isolate problems in your application.</li> |
| <li>Enable only the categories that you are interested in without affecting |
| other messages.</li> |
| <li>Filter out priority levels you don't need.</li> |
| <li>Filter out records based on NDC.</li> |
| <li>Reduce the time required to locate specific messages.</li> |
| <li>Read in and view log4j log files from either a file or a URL.</li> |
| <li>Start the LogFactor5 GUI up independent of your application.</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p><b>Features: </b> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Real-time category and log level filtering.</li> |
| <li>Read log files from a file.</li> |
| <li>Read log files from a URL.</li> |
| <li>Customizable Log Table view.</li> |
| <li>Category level tree navigation.</li> |
| <li>NDC record filtering.</li> |
| <li>Full text searching on logged messages.</li> |
| <li>Save configuration and filtering settings for later sessions.</li> |
| <li>Configure the number of log records to be displayed.</li> |
| <li>Customizable record colors.</li> |
| <li>Configurable font face and size.</li> |
| <li>Customizable Log Table column layout.</li> |
| <li>Full support for all log4j levels.</li> |
| <li>Full support for custom levels.</li> |
| <li>Dynamic message counting.</li> |
| </ul> |
| </p> |
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| <p><b>LogFactor5 System Requirements:</b></p> |
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| <p>LogFactor5 requires Java (TM) Virtual Machine 1.2.2 and log4j |
| 1.2 or later. |
| </p> |
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| <p><b> Documentation and Help</b></p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>All documentation is in HTML format.</li> |
| |
| <li>For additional documentation on logging, please see the <a |
| href="suggested_reading.html">Suggested Reading</a> |
| section. </li> |
| </ul> |
| <p><b> Platform Support</b></p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>LogFactor5 is written in 100% Java and will work with any |
| system supporting the Java 2 platform.</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p></p> |
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| </section> |
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| </document> |
