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LogFactor5 Overview

> What is LogFactor5? - LogFactor5 is a Swing based GUI that leverages the power of log4j logging framework and provides developers with a sophisticated, feature-rich, logging interface for managing log messages.

> How does it work? - LogFactor5 seamlessly plugs into log4j and provides developers with an alternate destination for outputting messages.

> Benefits:

> - Quickly isolate problems in your application.
> - Enable only the categories that you are interested in without affecting other messages.
> - Filter out priority levels you don't need.
> - Filter out records based on NDC.
> - Reduce the time required to locate specific messages.
> - Read in and view log4j log files from either a file or a URL.
> - Start the LogFactor5 GUI up independent of your application.

> Features:

> - Real-time category and log level filtering.
> - Read log files from a file.
> - Read log files from a URL.
> - Customizable Log Table view.
> - Category level tree navigation.
> - NDC record filtering.
> - Full text searching on logged messages.
> - Save configuration and filtering settings for later sessions.
> - Configure the number of log records to be displayed.
> - Customizable record colors.
> - Configurable font face and size.
> - Customizable Log Table column layout.
> - Full support for all log4j levels.
> - Full support for custom levels.
> - Dynamic message counting.

> LogFactor5 System Requirements:

> LogFactor5 requires Java (TM) Virtual Machine 1.2.2 and log4j 1.2 or later.

> Documentation and Help

> - All documentation is in HTML format.
> - For additional documentation on logging, please see the Suggested Reading section.

> Platform Support

> - LogFactor5 is written in 100% Java and will work with any system supporting the Java 2 platform.

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