LogBox : The Enterprise ColdFusion (CFML) Logging Library

LogBox is a standalone enterprise ColdFusion (CFML) logging library designed to give you flexibility, simplicity and power when logging or tracing is needed in your applications. LogBox is also part of the ColdBox Platform suite of services and libraries and allows you to easily build upon it’s logging framework in order to meet any logging or reporting needs your applications has. LogBox surpasses ColdFusion’s very basic cflog tag. LogBox allows you to create multiple destinations for your loggings and even configure multiple destinations or change them at runtime.

Almost every application needs logging and/or tracing capabilities and we have developed LogBox to satisfy these needs. Although you should take care not to over-use logging as it can slow down an application, LogBox offers you the capabilities to filter out or cancel logging noise a-la-carte. LogBox was inspired by the original logging capabilities in ColdBox and in the Log4j project.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Need For Logging
Chapter 3. Installation
Chapter 4. How Does LogBox Work?
Chapter 5. Configuring LogBox
Chapter 6. Using LogBox
Chapter 7. Using a Logger Object
Chapter 8. Creating Custom Appenders
Chapter 9. Creating a Custom Layout
Chapter 10. Appender Properties
Chapter 11. LogBox in a ColdBox Application
Chapter 12. Summary