13
14 This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
15 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
16 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
17 version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
18 accompanied this code).
19
20 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version
21 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
22 Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
23
24 Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
25 or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any
26 questions.
27 -->
28
29 </head>
30 <body bgcolor="white">
31 <P>
32 Provides the classes and interfaces of
33 the Java<SUP><FONT SIZE="-2">TM</FONT></SUP> 2
34 platform's core logging facilities.
35 The central goal of the logging APIs is to support maintaining and servicing
36 software at customer sites.
37
38 <P>
39 There are four main target uses of the logs:
40 </P>
41
42 <OL>
43 <LI> <I>Problem diagnosis by end users and system administrators</I>.
44 This consists of simple logging of common problems that can be fixed
45 or tracked locally, such as running out of resources, security failures,
46 and simple configuration errors.
47
48 <LI> <I>Problem diagnosis by field service engineers</I>. The logging information
49 used by field service engineers may be considerably more complex and
50 verbose than that required by system administrators. Typically such information
51 will require extra logging within particular subsystems.
52
53 <LI> <I>Problem diagnosis by the development organization</I>.
54 When a problem occurs in the field, it may be necessary to return the captured logging
|
13
14 This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
15 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
16 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
17 version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
18 accompanied this code).
19
20 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version
21 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
22 Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
23
24 Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
25 or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any
26 questions.
27 -->
28
29 </head>
30 <body bgcolor="white">
31 <P>
32 Provides the classes and interfaces of
33 the Java™ 2 platform's core logging facilities.
34 The central goal of the logging APIs is to support maintaining and servicing
35 software at customer sites.
36
37 <P>
38 There are four main target uses of the logs:
39 </P>
40
41 <OL>
42 <LI> <I>Problem diagnosis by end users and system administrators</I>.
43 This consists of simple logging of common problems that can be fixed
44 or tracked locally, such as running out of resources, security failures,
45 and simple configuration errors.
46
47 <LI> <I>Problem diagnosis by field service engineers</I>. The logging information
48 used by field service engineers may be considerably more complex and
49 verbose than that required by system administrators. Typically such information
50 will require extra logging within particular subsystems.
51
52 <LI> <I>Problem diagnosis by the development organization</I>.
53 When a problem occurs in the field, it may be necessary to return the captured logging
|