Re: [Jsdsi-devel] Logging framework

[Sean R. <sra...@ae...>]

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 15:14, Sameer Ajmani wrote:
> Logging is always a good idea.  In JSDSI, it would be very helpful to have
> logging in the prover and verifier.
> 
> If most applications use log4j, why do you suggest apache commons-logging?
>  Are they compatible? (they're both Apache team products, right?)  Or do
> you mean we can just plug log4j into commons-logging, and other users can
> plug alternative logging frameworks into it?
That's exactly it. commons-logging is an abstraction layer for logging
that uses log4j, JDK logging, it's own simple logger, a dummy logger or
whatever framework you care to connect it to.

Sean

> 
> Sameer
> 
> > Here's a question that I've been meaning to ask.
> >
> > How do people feel about logging frameworks?
> >
> > I myself think logging is a good idea as it is a great tool to track
> > down problems in live systems. So I would like to ask how people feel to
> > adding the apache commons-logging to jsdsi. The reason to go for that
> > rather than straight for either log4j or java.util.logging is that it is
> > an abstraction to other logging frameworks so the target environment can
> > be using whatever it choses (or nothing).
> >
> > An example: most (all) J2EE application containers use log4j... If jsdsi
> > uses JDK logging then ALL the messages appear at the ERROR level or are
> > discarded completely!
> >
> > I think logging is becoming more and more needed in JSDSI, especially as
> > it will become more complicated with more functionality in the future.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Sean
> >
> >
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