[Isolate-interest] Isolates, Aggregates, and Logging

[Curt Cox]

Hi All,

How will isolates impact logging?

Will each isolate log independently?
This seems like the most expected, yet usually least convenient choice.

Will each isolate of an aggregate be somehow more linked than
isolates of different aggregates, as far as logging goes?

Log4j can handle aggregating isolated logs,
without too much trouble.

Every isolate would get a SocketAppender.
http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/docs/api/org/apache/log4j/net/SocketAppender.html

One isolate would act as a SocketServer.
http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/docs/api/org/apache/log4j/net/SocketServer.html

java.util.logging only has half of this functionality.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/logging/SocketHandler.html

Since log users will typically want a consolidated view of the logs 
available
for an aggregate, constructing one should be at least trivial,
if not completely automatic.

Thanks,
Curt