Overview (de.christofreichardt:tracelogger 1.7.1 API)

Packages
Package	Description
de.christofreichardt.diagnosis	Provides the basic tracing faclitities.
de.christofreichardt.diagnosis.file	Contains tracers which log into the local file system.
de.christofreichardt.diagnosis.io	Contains primarily the definitions of the I/O streams used by the tracers.
de.christofreichardt.diagnosis.net	Contains tracer which log over the network.

This document is the API specification for the TraceLogger library. This library helps to avoid errors and helps to debug errors during the development of complex software systems on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) by providing clearly arranged (trace-)logs. That is, in contrast to conventional loggers the call stack of the to be observed methods is presented by indenting the trace messages dependent on the actual depth of the call stack. A distinction is made between fine granular trace messages (entering and exiting of methods, debugging output) and conventional log messages (error, warning and info notifications). For production the latter ones can be redirected to a conventional logging system like log4j whereas the trace messages will be discarded. Several strategies to access tracers can be employed. Tracers can be accessed by name, can be mapped on threads and be retrieved by invoking a blocking queue. Unlike conventional java loggers, these tracers aren't linked with the package hierarchy but rather linked with threads.