When developing Java applications, it is easy to get used to invoking logging on the provided logger via its log level-specific methods. For example, Log4j‘s Logger provides methods such as ...

package dustin.examples; import java.util.logging.Logger; import static java.lang.System.out; public class FickleLogging { private static Logger LOGGER = Logger ...

In the last article, we showed how you can use JConsole to manage a local application or just peer into the JVM for a view of how it is working. Useful as this is in development, out in the field, the ...