org.apache.log
Interface LogTarget

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractJDBCTarget, AbstractJMSTarget, AbstractOutputTarget, AbstractTarget, AbstractWrappingTarget, AsyncLogTarget, DatagramOutputTarget, DefaultJDBCTarget, FileTarget, JMSQueueTarget, JMSTopicTarget, LF5LogTarget, MemoryTarget, NormalizedJDBCTarget, NullOutputLogTarget, PriorityFilteringTarget, RotatingFileTarget, SafeFileTarget, ServletOutputLogTarget, SMTPOutputLogTarget, SocketOutputTarget, 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