Jeff Longland

While searching for log4j Chainsaw updates re: VFS support, I came across a post on Oliver’s blog (initial author of Chainsaw) that related to an issue I came across a few years ago. My post to the log4j-users mailing list was related to concerns about log4j socket appenders potentially deadlocking the application server - in this case, WebLogic 8.1. A few months later Oliver encountered the problem - which is what I stumbled upon today. So the point of this post? Don’t use socket appenders on a production system - although I thoroughly advocate their use on dev/qa environments. The other point, it’s a small world after all.

1. trampled on or down
2. oppressed; subjugated; tyrannized over