[SNMP4J] Apache MINA based transport for SNMP4J and some question about logging

[Alan Cabrera]

Interesting.  Why does the agent code need to do that?


Regards,
Alan

On May 27, 2008, at 1:40 PM, Frank Fock wrote:

> Hi Julien,
>
> AFAIK, you cannot discover the registered loggers
> from slf4j.
>
> Regards,
> Frank
>
> Julien Vermillard wrote:
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>> Hi Frank
>> I'll say when it's production ready, I'll probably test it next week
>> with a bigger network than my first test.
>> About SLF4J, I know SNMP4J plan for no dependencies, but, simple
>> curiosity, what are exactly the missing feature of slf4j ??
>> Julien
>> On Mon, 26 May 2008 23:33:46 +0200
>> Frank Fock <fock at agentpp.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Julien,
>>>
>>> MINA seems to be easy to use, indeed.
>>> I have planned a nio implementation of
>>> the UDP transport mapping for SNMP4J 2.0
>>> (Java SE 5 based).
>>>
>>> The slf4j is not an option, because
>>> (a) SNMP4J should not have any dependency
>>> to a third party lib.
>>> (b) slf4j does not implement all necessary
>>> functions needed by SNMP4J-Agent.
>>>
>>> I may put a link on the SNMP4J site to
>>> your transport mapping implementation, when
>>> you think it is ready for production usage.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Frank
>>>
>>> Julien Vermillard wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm a commiter on Apache MINA and a great fan of SNMP4J (I use it
>>>> since few year). So naturally I made a mina based transport for
>>>> snmp4j.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway if you look at the code the use of MINA, managed to reduce
>>>> the number of LoC, removing all the listener/worker thread code,
>>>> because it's using MINA executor filter for processing incoming
>>>> data.
>>>> The first quick implementations here :
>>>> http://people.apache.org/~jvermillard/snmp4j/
>>>> Basic testing showed it's working. I hope some of you will be
>>>> interested ;)
>>>>
>>>> I know it's here because snmp4j is a bit old now, but I think the
>>>> whole logging class could be removed to use a logging facade
>>>> library like slf4j so the user can choose wich logging framework to
>>>> use without need to know about org.snmp4j.log.* classes. Oh, and
>>>> using sl4j remove the need to test isDebugEnabled() because it's
>>>> doing the string concatenation only if needed. If you want I can
>>>> provide some patch for that.
>>>>
>>>> Julien
>>>>
>>>> P.S. : cross-posting to mina-dev list, because I know there is some
>>>> snmp4j users there.
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