JEP 271: Unified GC Logging

[Bengt Rutisson]

Hi Johann,

Thanks for looking at the JEP!

On 24/09/15 14:40, Johann N. Loefflmann wrote:
> On 09/24/2015 02:08 PM, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
>> and I'm happy to hear some suggestions on how to format this nicely,
>
> Why not printing out xml on demand (resp. by default if -Xloggc is set) ?
> With xml any preferred/customized output format could be generated 
> from the log (e.g. plain text).

I think this has already been discussed in the discussions around the 
JEP for the unfied logging framework "JEP 158 Unified JVM Logging". 
Please see the discussions there.

In short I think the main point is that it is good if the logging is 
easy for tools to parse but the main intent is still that they should be 
human readable. So, XML is not a desirable format.

Thanks,
Bengt

>
> just my 0.02 cents,
> -Johann
>