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Pantheios

 Pantheios

 

What is Pantheios?

Pantheios is an Open Source C/C++ Diagnostic Logging API library, offering an optimal combination of 100% type-safety, efficiency, genericity and extensibility. It is simple to use and extend, highly-portable (platform and compiler-independent) and, best of all, it upholds the C tradition of you only pay for what you use.

Pantheios supports diagnostic logging of message statements of arbitrary complexity, consisting of heterogenous types.

Pantheios supports filtering of log messages based on severity level including (but not limited to) the eight levels defined by the SysLog protocol.

Pantheios supports back-end output, individually and in combination, to file, stderr/stdout, SysLog (including a custom implementation of the SysLog protocol for Windows), Windows debugger, Windows event log, COM Error Object, speech, or any custom back-end extension you care to write. Importantly, Pantheios is readily extended to use the existing transport mechanisms of feature-rich diagnostic logging libraries such as ACE, log4cpp, log4cplus, log4cxx.

Pantheios does not contain any compiler-specific or platform-specific constructs. It supports UNIX (including Linux and Mac OS-X), and Windows, and should work with any operating system. It is known to be compatible with Borland (5.5.1+), Comeau (4.3.3+), Digital Mars (8.45+), GCC (3.2+), Intel (6+), Metrowerks (8+), Microsoft Visual C++ (5.0+), and should work with any reasonably modern C++ compiler.

SourceForge.net Logo Pantheios is completely free and includes source released under a BSD-style licence. It is available for download from SourceForge.net.

Pantheios was forked from a previous diagnostic logging architecture, proprietary to Synesis Software, in 2005, and has been used in commercial projects in Australia, Europe and the US since that time. In one project it serves a middleware suite that handles 10s of millions of financial transactions per week, wherein it has an unmeasurably low impact on performance when logging (of a given severity level) is switched off. (It's also decidedly quick with logging switched on, of course ...). In another, its rock-solid reliability has served 10^11 diagnostic logging events in a transactional financial system in the heart of New York without a flutter.

Pantheios is the optimal combination of diagnostic logging API features. It is the diagnostic logging API sweetspot! (Click here if you're skeptical of this claim.)


Synesis Software provide commercial customisation services for Pantheios (and other libraries) for those users who need to squeeze out every last cycle of performance from their programs. Synesis Software also provide training for those users who wish to learn how to maximise their use of Pantheios, and/or wish to learn how to customise its advanced facilities. Contact them today and turbo-charge your application's performance.

This Website

  • Essentials - essential facts you need to know about Pantheios to get up and running.
  • Pantheios Architecture - introduction to the four parts of the Pantheios architecture: Application Layer, Core, Front-end, Back-ends.
  • Downloads - download the Pantheios library (source and binaries), samples, tools and dependent projects.
  • Tutorials - tutorials on using the Pantheios library.
  • Related Material - read up on the concepts of Shims & Type Tunneling, on the STLSoft auto_buffer class, on namespace aliasing, and more ...
  • API Documentation - once you've familiarised yourself with Pantheios via the tutorials, use the online documentation for fine details on the API functions and types.
  • Project Members - see who is implementing Pantheios, and how you can help out.
  • Performance - performance tests, which demonstrate the claimed peerless performance of Pantheios.
  • Future Directions - features that are anticipated/planned, but not yet implemented.
 

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