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Chainsaw (log file viewer)
Developer(s) Apache Software Foundation
Stable release 2.0 / March 2, 2006
Development status Active
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform
Type GUI tool to view and analyze log files
License Apache 2.0 Licence
Website [1]
Chainsaw is a java-based GUI tool to view and analyze log files - specifically logs generated by the Log4j logging
system. Both Log4j and Chainsaw are Open source projects under Apache Software Foundation. The latest release is
Chainsaw v2. [2] Chainsaw can read log files formatted in Log4j's XMLLayout [3] , receive events from remote
locations, read events from a DB, or work with JDK 1.4 logging events.
License
The project is licensed under Apache License, V 2.0. Dependencies may not follow the same licensing. [4]
External links
• Apache Logging Services Chainsaw v2 Home [1]
• JavaDoc API reference for Chainsaw v2 [5]
References
[1] http:/ / logging. apache. org/ chainsaw/
[2] "Apache Chainsaw v2 Download'" (http:/ / logging. apache. org/ chainsaw/ ). . Retrieved 2008-01-30.
[3] http:/ / logging. apache. org/ log4j/ 1. 2/ apidocs/ org/ apache/ log4j/ xml/ XMLLayout. html
[4] "Apache Chainsaw Project License'" (http:/ / logging. apache. org/ chainsaw/ license. html). . Retrieved 2008-01-30.
[5] http:/ / logging. apache. org/ chainsaw/ apidocs/