On 1/30/02 3:51 PM, "James Strachan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Geir Magnusson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [snip] >> Just to throw another log on the fire... >> >> We did too in Velocity-land, and built the following, a while ago : >> >> 1) Simple interface through which Velocity would happily log into any >> supplied class/object that supported that interface. >> >> 2) 'Autodetection' - when the user didn't specify the logsystem they >> preferred, we would look for log4j or logkit in the classpath, and use >> whatever we found. That means that you can just put the log4j.jar or >> logkit.jar into the classpath, and velocity will automatically log to a > file >> using that system. > > FWIW this is pretty close to what the commons-logger actually is and the > itch its trying to scratch. A facade to the 'big 3' logging packages. Just > put JDK1.4, log4j or LogKit on your classpath and it'll be used, otherwise > System.out gets used. > Cool. And it was in Velocity before Commons Loggers was an unattributed gleam in someone eye :) (sorry - just *couldn't* resist ) Now all it needs is the auto-find feature... (And I still don't see a point to rip anything out of Velocity :) -- Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] System and Software Consulting You're going to end up getting pissed at your software anyway, so you might as well not pay for it. Try Open Source. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
