On Nov 25, 2007 2:31 PM, Wim Deblauwe <<a href="mailto:wim.deblauwe@gmail.com">wim.deblauwe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>The currently released Vigilog version is 1.2, but you can get a much<br>improved version via webstart when going to <a href="http://vigilog.sf.net/staging" target="_blank">http://vigilog.sf.net/staging</a>.<br><br>I hope to release the
1.3 soon.<br></blockquote><div><br>I must say, Wim, 1.3-SNAPSHOT looks really nice! I've started using it almost daily at work. As Sébastien mentioned, I don't know how good it would be for the logback plugin to launch a separate window (
i.e., launch Vigilog), but having used Vigilog and its features, it would be nice to have its feature set in an Eclipse plugin.<br><br>I thought about how other Eclipse plugins handle this "screen real estate" issue.
<a href="http://www.ej-technologies.com/products/jprofiler/overview.html">JProfiler</a>, for instance, launches its own window because there's no way a full profiler would fit into a View. Clicking links in the external window brings you back to the IDE (at least with Eclipse). Another approach would be to have a Eclipse "tab" (I'm not sure what it's exactly called) opened, like when you want to compare revisions of a file. Or maybe an entire "Logback" perspective?
<br><br>What do you guys think? Perhaps someone will correct me (and please do), but I haven't seen a really nice IDE logging plugin. It would be so useful, and yet, it seems to be almost unmarked territory (hopefully fillable by logback!). :)
<br><br>What do you guys think as far as an IDE plugin does?<br><ul><li>separate window (like <a href="http://www.ej-technologies.com/products/jprofiler/overview.html">JProfiler</a>) lets you support multiple IDEs easily because of a shared code base and have lots of features because screen real estate is not that much of a concern
<br></li><li>internal window (View, or Perspective) is nice because it would be highly integrated with the IDE, but could not have as many features without feeling crammed</li></ul>Perhaps these needs call for multiple tools? What do you guys think?
<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>regards,<br><br>Wim<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><br>Maarten Bosteels wrote:
<br>><br>> Hello Karl,<br>><br>> I am not working on the Logback Console Plugin, but I agree that a JTable<br>> would be much better than just text.<br>><br>> But instead of enhancing the current plugin, this is what I had in mind:
<br>> * enhance vigilog [1] in several ways (ability to taill a log-file, to<br>> receive logging events over a socket, ...)<br>> * create a plugin for Eclipse and for IntelliJ IDEA that listens on a<br>> socket
<br>> for commands like<br>> "goto:org.some.package.MyCoolClass:172" => plugin will then open an<br>> editor window for the specified class and line<br>> * vigilog could then create hyperlinks for all logging events that have a
<br>> locationInfo and for stacktraces<br>><br>> This way, we can concentrate on enhancing vigilog and both eclipse and<br>> idea<br>> users benefit.<br>><br>> Note that I am not yet a vigilog contributor, and it could take a long
<br>> time<br>> before all this is accomplished.<br>> Just wanted to let you know what I have in mind.<br>><br>> And if you want to add a JTable to the Console Plugin, it might be<br>> interesting to have a look at the vigilog source code.
<br>> It uses glazedlists and JxTable.<br>><br>> [1] <a href="http://vigilog.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://vigilog.sourceforge.net/</a><br>><br>> Regards<br>> Maarten<br>><br>><br>> On Nov 22, 2007 4:27 AM, Karl Pietrzak <
<a href="mailto:kap4020@gmail.com">kap4020@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>>> Hey everyone!<br>>><br>>> Logback looks awesome! Is anyone (besides me) interested in having a<br>>> Table instead of List in the Logback Console Plugin?
<br>>><br>>> I'm thinking about spending some time on this. Anyone wanna join me? (<br>>> e.g., I'll add Table support and someone else does sorting-by-column?)<br>>><br>>> Thanks, and keep up the great work!
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