Fun with Java: Log4j appender using notify-send on ubuntu

January 18th, 2010

I’ve discovered yet another -maybe quite useless- trick to combine java-development, JBoss AS and Ubuntu (or any other debian-based distro).

I created a very simple log4j-appender which used notify-send (commandline-tool for libnotify) to report errors. This way I will get a visual notification when something went wrong, immediately showing the class of the error and the message.

As an example, I use my favorite Application Server, JBoss AS, but any java-app using log4j (or commons-logging on top of log4j or slf4j-log4j) will do.

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