ELATE - Extensible Logger And Tracer (original) (raw)
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About the project
ELATE - Extensible LoggerAnd TracEr
What is ELATE?
ELATE is a software application, disributed as C source codethat is intended to be compiled with any other C/C++ program. It is able to collect information about different situations, conditions and events inside the program, transform this information into data items called “reports” and to forward the “reports” outside, toward one or more entites, called “reporting targets”.
What is that good for?
Since ELATE may forward different messages from the hosting program outside – that may be used for different missions, for example:
- software debugging;
- tracingof usage of system resources;
- loggingof textual reports;
- tracing of application and/or system-level events;
- etc.
What is special in ELATE?
- ELATEprovides several built-in report types, like: textual output, assertion, dump of variables and memory regions;
- ELATEallows to classify the generated messages by levels of importance;
- ELATEgives the opportunity to mask (suppress) generated reports by one or more criteria;
- ELATEprovides the way to define many different reporting targets (like printer, file, another process, socket, console etc.); also there is a flexible mechanism allowing easy runtime redirection of reports between targets;
- ELATEmakes minimally possible usage of resources and services of operating system (for example, it uses NO dynamic memory allocation) – that allows it to be minimally dependent upon the specific OS; Though originally ELATE was created in i386 Linux environment it may be easily ported to any other platform.
- ELATEallows to define customreport types and to configure wide range of its inernal parameters.
- Developer may easily add its own kinds of reports using scripts.
How can I obtain it?
- ELATE is an Open-Source project, hosted by Sourceforge.net. The project summary can be found here. The sources are available through the CVS here
- Also you may download ready packages from here.
Documentation
ELATE online
If you want to post your comments, doubts, requests and any other opinions through the mail Also please checkout the Open Discussion forum
What is next?
If you have any ideas how to improve or extend this software – please do not hesitate, inform me through the e-mail (bvprojs@gmail.com) or using the Feature Request tracker Also the Open Discussion forum. is available.
Perpetuation :)
I am trying to build a list of projects using ELATE. If you know projects or companies using it in their work please let me know through the email bvprojs@gmail.comand I will add them to the list.
Links
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Also please visit my other project: Tagged Content Storage (TaCoS)
Donations
If you found this software useful - please consider donation. It can be made through Sourceforge Donations System. Also you may donate directly using this button :
Any donation will be accepted gratefully.