org.jivesoftware.util.log
Interface LogTarget

All Known Subinterfaces:

FilterTarget

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractFilterTarget, AbstractOutputTarget, AbstractTarget, AsyncLogTarget, FileTarget, PriorityFilter, RotatingFileTarget, StreamTarget, WriterTarget

public interface LogTarget

LogTarget is a class to encapsulate outputting LogEvent's. This provides the base for all output and filter targets.

Warning: If performance becomes a problem then this interface will be rewritten as a abstract class.

Author:

Peter Donald

Method Summary

void	processEvent(LogEvent event) Process a log event.

Method Detail

processEvent

void processEvent(LogEvent event)

Process a log event. In NO case should this method ever throw an exception/error. The reason is that logging is usually added for debugging/auditing purposes and it would be unnaceptable to have your debugging code cause more errors.

Parameters:

event - the event