This (logging to a ring buffer) has been done many times - eg http://www.stefanrufer.ch/snipsnap/space/Virtual+Brain/Java/Debug-Appender http://www.stefanrufer.

This (logging to a ring buffer) has been done many times - eg http://www.stefanrufer.ch/snipsnap/space/Virtual+Brain/Java/Debug-Appender http://www.stefanrufer.ch/snipsnap/space/Virtual+Brain/Java/... There's even an implementation built right into log4j, 13 years ago, the SMTPAppender: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/logging/log4j/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/log4j/net/SMTPAppender.java?revision=308876&view=markup http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/logging/log4j/trunk/src/main/ja...