RE: JDBCAppender configuration

> The JDBCAppender is shoddy anyhow - write yourself a replacement. It's a
> great way to learn about what makes a good Appender.

To follow up: what I tend to do is have a custom JDBC Appender that adds a small custom log entry object (with
all interesting info from the LoggingEvent) to a limited sized BlockingDeque and immediately returns. I
have a background daemon thread that waits on the queue and adds the info to the logging database. I have a
simple Connection test and failure recovery mechanism and I've hooked in a simple "purge" statement that
can be run every few hours to limit the size of the log table, and some magic configuration entries so I can do
some cool things inside activateOptions().

I'd post the classes if I wasn't developing proprietary software under NDA (and it wasn't so specific to my
projects), but it's pretty simple stuff -- I learned most of how Log4J works by stepping through the source
in Eclipse.

Regards,
Michael Erskine.