#33 remote logging

[James]

(I tried posting this to the newsgroup, but it didn't
seem to go through.)

I am working on porting the ui of some java processes
to JMX, and would like to view logging information in
real-time (well, slightly delayed real-time). I
couldn't find a way to watch log statement occur from
JConsole or from MC4j, so I was wondering whether this
was already in the works or whether I should add the
feature.

My proposal:
-a JMXAppender, compatible with Log4j which sent
notifications to a listener in the MC4J console
-a console-side listener which posts messages to a
JTextPane; there would be options for
maxMessageHistorySize, etc.
-a more user-friendly version of the setLoggingLevel
property in the view/dashboard, perhaps?

-J