When developing Java applications, it is easy to get used to invoking logging on the provided logger via its log level-specific methods. For example, Log4j‘s Logger provides methods such as ...

The purpose of this blog entry is to show an extremely simple of example of “logging” entry into and exit from methods using the Spring Framework and AspectJ. The example is so simple that I won’t ...

When things go wrong in production, logging provides a way of going back through an application's history to find out what happened. Here's the simplest possible way to use Peter's favorite ...

This early journaling system has evolved to encompass lowering logging tools into the wellbore via wireline in order to measure porosity, resistivity, permeability, temperature, water saturation and ...

If resource permits, definitely use the DB. A plain text file is hard to "use" (unless writing a shit load of perl or whatever just to digest the file is within your definition of easy); a DB, OTOH, ...

It's not enough to get an IIS Web server up and running. You must also be able to manage the log files to track site utilization and user activity. Multiple options for logging user access activity ...