Abuse Report Format (ARF) Message Generator

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 I have been working on testing a feedback loop, and wanted a simple mechanism to do the testing.

I was surprised that I couldn't find any framework when I was searching to do it. As any good developer, I decided to write my own way of testing it.

The Abuse Report Format (ARF) Message Generator takes a raw email, and sends it back to the server that sent it as an abuse feedback report.

The code requires JavaMail API and Sun DSN API.

The project includes a custom mailcap file to handle the new ARF report format.

The code is located on Github including the sample usage here: arf-message-generator

Log4j2 java.util.logging (JUL) Adapter Example

Introduction

I was looking for an example of how to implement the java.util.logging (JUL) adapter in a project. This would almost seem to be a no brainer of an idea with lots of examples of how to do it. Alas, I didn't find much of anything. So I thought I would share some wisdom of how to implement the JUL Adapter.

Implementation

You need to tell the application to use the JUL adapter. There are two easy ways to accomplish this.

1. The easiest is to pass a VM option to the application: -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.logging.log4j.jul.LogManager
2. Alternatively, you can use a static initializer in your class. This is important because the value needs to be set before the logger is called.

The code for the project can be found on GitHub here: log4j2-jul-example

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