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Apache Log4cxx Version 1.0.0
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Apache Log4cxx is a logging framework for C++ patterned after Apache log4j, which uses Apache Portable Runtime for most platform-specific code and should be usable on any platform supported by APR. Apache Log4cxx is licensed under the Apache License, an open source license certified by the Open Source Initiative.
Experience indicates that almost every large application needs runtime configurable logging. Informational, warning and error log messages should be saved in persistent medium available for study at a later time.
In the development cycle, logging can be an auditing tool. Debugging log output can be activated for an aspect of the application simply by modifying a configuration file. The correctness of a function should be verified by viewing logged calculated values. A faulty piece of code can be isolated by viewing logged function input values and the corresponding logged result values. These debugging log statements can be removed from the shipped application using a compiler build directive. Logging statements do increase the (code) size of the application, but with Log4cxx the speed of the application is not generally affected (see Performance).
Logging is useful where debuggers are not, for example:
For persisted messages, the storage location and the quantity retained can be specified and changed using a configuration file. The configuration also allows you to control the destination of log messages. They can be sent to a file, a remote socket server, event loggers as well as the console, with support for directing particular messages to one or more destinations.
More information on how to use Log4cxx can be found on the usage page. For a more general overview of what logging is, the logging services committee has a logging overview page that explains more of what logging is and when to use it.
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