The whole purpose of logging gets defeated when the underlying logging framework becomes a bottleneck. Logging frameworks need to be fast, have a small memory footprint, and easily configurable. Logback is a logging framework with those qualities. If you are new to Logback, I suggest going through my introductory post on Logback: Logback Introduction: An Enterprise […]Continue reading
I’m happy to announce I’ll be speaking at Devoxx Poland this June. I’ve proposed a talk on getting hip with JHipster. I’ve been using JHipster on a client project, and really like it. The team behind JHipster has done a really nice job of bringing together complex but leading and best of breed technologies. On […]Continue reading
The majority of the time when you’re working with Maps in Java, you’ll be accessing the map values via the key. There are times you need to walk the map like a list. There’s a number of ways to do this in Java, which have grown over time as the language has evolved. Let’s take […]Continue reading
Monitoring, diagnosing, and troubleshooting are key activities in any enterprise application lifecycle, and logging is the core part of these activities. Through logging you get to see what the application code is actually doing during these activities at runtime. Using System.out to print messages to the console is simply not sufficient for enterprise applications. Enterprise applications […]Continue reading
Similar to accompanying application development activities, such as unit testing and documentation, logging is an integral part of any enterprise application. And Spring Boot applications are no different. Through logging, you get to see what the Spring Boot application code is really doing during monitoring, troubleshooting, and debugging. Spring Boot makes using a logging framework […]Continue reading
Log4J 2 is a logging framework designed to address the logging requirements of enterprise applications. If you are new to Log4J2, I suggest going through my introductory post on Log4J 2, Introducing Log4J 2 – Enterprise Class Logging. Log4J 2 introduces configuration support via JSON and YAML in addition to properties file and XML. I’ve written […]Continue reading
Log4J 2 introduces configuration support through JSON and YAML in addition to properties file and XML. If you are new to Log4J2, I suggest going through my introductory post on Log4J 2, Introducing Log4J 2 – Enterprise Class Logging. For the different Log4J 2 configuration options, you can explore these related posts: Log4J 2 Configuration: Using […]Continue reading
Log4J 2 introduces configuration support through JSON and YAML in addition to properties file and XML. If you are new to Log4J 2, I suggest reading my introductory post on Log4J 2, Introducing Log4J 2 – Enterprise Class Logging. For Log4J 2 configuration using properties file, read my post Log4J 2 Configuration: Using Properties File, […]Continue reading
In Introducing Log4J 2 – Enterprise Class Logging, my first post of the Log4J 2 series, I discussed about the components of Log4J 2 and how to use Log4J 2 to perform basic logging in Java applications. In the second post, Log4J 2 Configuration: Using Properties File, I explained how to set up Log4J 2 […]Continue reading
Log4J 2 is a logging framework designed to address the logging requirements of enterprise applications. Its predecessor Log4J 1.x has been around for more than one and a half decade and is still one of the most widely used Java logging framework. Log4J has even been ported to the .NET world. Log4net is one of […]Continue reading
