More Windsor Love: Using log4net integration

Adopting an IoC container has been a software revelation for me. It just keeps on getting better. I just added logging to Suteki Shop simply by doing the following steps (thanks to Sean Chambers for the details)

1. Add a reference to the following Castle Project dlls:

Castle.Facilities.Logging.dll
Castle.Services.Logging.Log4netIntegration.dll

2. Configure the LoggingFacility:

<facilities>
  <facility
    id="loggingfacility"
    configfile="log4net.config"
    loggingapi="log4net"
    type="Castle.Facilities.Logging.LoggingFacility, Castle.Facilities.Logging" />
</facilities>

3. Add the log4net config file to the root of the web application:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<log4net>

  <appender name="RollingFile" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
    <file value="sutekishop.log" />
    <appendToFile value="true" />
    <maximumFileSize value="100KB" />
    <maxSizeRollBackups value="2" />

    <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
      <conversionPattern value="%level %thread %logger - %message%newline" />
    </layout>
  </appender>

  <root>
    <level value="DEBUG" />
    <appender-ref ref="RollingFile" />
  </root>
</log4net>
</configuration>

And that's all. Isn't that cool, now I can simply add a dependcy for ILogger to any service in my application and log to my heart's content.