Changes Grace Software JavaLog $Revision: 1.7 $ $Date: 2000/02/02 14:34:23 $

Since 0.7.4

Possible Changes Incompatible With Previous Versions

• -Dlog.name=name now sets actual name that is written to rmiregistry. Before, it was always prefixed by "log.distributer". It is still recommended that the this prefix be used even when naming the logs to allow other clients to query for this pattern.
• Radically changed the StackTrace class
• Separated Log non-static code to DistributerImpl
• Changed Log Log.getInstance() to Distributer Log.getDistributer()
• Changed all Property references to the new grace.param.Parameters class
• Changed grace.util.Tokenizer to grace.text.Tokenizer

Fixes:

• Hopefully disguised problem it IBM JDKs with incorrect stack traces (thanks Corey Puffalt)
• Fixed bug in PrintWriter.rememberAccessorsUsingGetMethods() (thanks Serge Knystautas of Loki Technologies)
• Made Log.removeHandler public (thanks Serge Knystautas of Loki Technologies)

Additions:

• grace.log.filter.* classes for scripted runtime filtering
• grace.text.ParsePosition class
• Parameter class for wrapping Properties, ResourceBundles, and Applet parameters
• log.catcher.out=boolean and log.catcher.err=boolean properties
• two distribute functions to Distributer
• FileHandler compression and archiving
• fatal(...) and assert(...) functions to static Log functions

Documentation:

• Added forward, toc, and back icons to user docs.
• Added to CodeControls.html.
• Added uniform headers to all user docs.
• Added description of numeric event type filtering.
• Added description of property loading on command line and files
• Spell check on docs (still in progress)

Since 0.7

Fixes:

• Fixed bug where log was not initialize early enough (thanks Keith Wimberly FedEx)

Additions:

• Open Source! (...and there was much rejoicing...)
• Different layout for documentation
• Made event filtering work with user defined event types
• Log class now implements Distributer interface
• Distributers are now added to rmiregistry if configured
• Reads home and pwd .logrc property files
• Added color log output to StandardOutHandler
• Unbundled GNU regexp library
• Added many more test programs
• Ability to send log events to remote (centralized) server
• better format handling of various Java built-in objects types