[Asterisk-java-users] Logging -- was "Re: pre-packaged jars"

[Steve D. <Ste...@Su...>]

> After further investigation I think the easiest way to go is to use a 
> very thin wrapper around commons-logging"s LogFactory that determines 
> via reflection if the commons-logging classes are available. If they 
> are available on the classpath a commons-logging Log object (in fact a 
> proxy for it) will be returned otherwise a NullLog will be returned 
> that does nothing.  So we will still have a compile time dependency on 
> commons-logging but at runtime logging is just switched off if 
> commons-logging is not available.

Why not just use the logging built into Java?  It does the same thing 
in this simple case.