Lumberjack; logging API for JDK 1.2/3 / News: Recent posts

It's out. It brings Lumberjack in line with the Java Logging APIs version 0.8.

If anyone downloaded 0.9, please download 0.9.1 immediately (I put out 0.9 before I had done adequate testing and it was broken in several ways).

It fixes several bugs:
462762 - The form of Logger.entering which takes one argument was missing 462763 - Logger.entering that takes multiple parameters doesn't print them 451706 - Logger.getLogger null pointer exception 462767 - Logger.formatMessage does not handle null resource bundles well

I know that there are some people who would really like the readObject/writeObject bug to be fixed, and I hope to get to it really soon.

This release fixes problems with calls to addShutdownHook in JDK 1.2.2 and also fixes the bug with property change events not being fired.

Lumberjack 0.8.5 fixes a number of bugs that had been reported against 0.8.4 or earlier. In particular:

434891 - the default log level for FileHandler was wrong
434899 - The first logging sequence number was zero as compared to 1 for 1.4 beta
434907 - There was no guess made on what the source class and method names should be (1.4 guesses)
434917 - the integer values for the predefined Level objects differed between Lumberjack and 1.4
434919 - FileHandler generated file names differently than 1.4beta
434925 - SimpleFormatter's output was different than 1.4beta

Lumberjack 0.8.4 is out. It fixes a bug in LogManager that caused the global handlers to not always output all their content when the JVM exits and improved the performance of the Logger class.

Also, there are now three mailing lists for Lumberjack. Javalogging-announce is a intended for announcements regarding Lumberjack; Javalogging-user is for users of Lumberjack to discuss the library, while javalogging-developer is for the developers actively maintaining/developing Lumberjack.

Lumberjack implements the logging API introduced in JDK 1.4, making it available to developers using JDK 1.2 and 1.3. Start using the core platform logging API today without having to move to 1.4 beta!