SLF4J (http://www.slf4j.org/) already implements
a logging facade that Higgins can use that can abstract JSR47, log4j or logback
logging. Its using a permisive MIT license.
Just a suggestion.
Prakash,
Assuming for
the moment that Higgins folks agree
with swapping JSR47 for Log4J, are willing to work on and contribute a patch
along these lines?
-Paul
From:
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On Behalf Of Prakash C
Mallick
Sent: Thursday, May 29,
2008 7:52 AM
To:
higgins-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [higgins-dev] Log4J vs JSR47
loggers in Higgins' IdAS
code
Hi All,
I found that higgins' IdAS uses log4j for lgging . As IdAS APIs
consumer will be from different organizations, they will have their only guide
lines for selecting a logging framework , this sort of direct usage of logging
calls from Log4J will have the following limitations.
- Say an existing software uses
JSR47 logging framework and they plan to use IdAS API in one of their
component. They will niether prefer to maintain two logging frameworks
simultaneously to use IdAS API nor will they will prefer to move to
log4j if they plan to use IdAS API. Admining two logging mechanism in one
software will be not a good idea and also if the software is having a large
code base , its not possible to move from one existing logging frame work to
Log4J.
- Loggers as choosen based on
performance, internationalization flexibility , better features and so on ,
but this way the user will have no choice but stick to log4j even if its a
good logging toolkit.
- Many roganizations will have
their own logging framework or they will have some standard to use a specific
logging framework . So using IdAS API based on Log4J may not be possible for
them.
Similarly there can be many
such limitation which needs to be identified.
To
over come such issues, Is it possible to implement logging using one of the
following ways or any other ways which can help in avoiding such issues
mentioned above.
- Replace Log4J with JSR47
(preferrable as in many areas JSR47 is the preferred logger
compared to Log4J)
- Write a wrapper logging
framework which can be either configured for Log4J and
JSR47
Thanks and
Regards,
Prakash
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