Java – Logging in high volume transactions

Logging involves disk IO. I have run tests and in some cases logging affected the response time and in some cases I did not. However this is not about how logging affects response time.

If you choose to do extensive logging in your application – there are few common options to choose

1. Set up JMS and post the log message to the message queue.
Pro: Clean JEE implementation
Con: JMS setup overhead

2. Use log4j asynchronous logging
Pro: Easy to use, just a configuration in the log4j xml
Con: Creates a thread and I know some app server administrators don’t like the idea of applications creating threads