sorry, didn't catch this reply earlier. I see, but then we are back to my original problem. Once you add e.g. log4j-slf4j binding then you will get nasty class cast exceptions because they are not fully binary compatible. If there is a log4j.jar in the classpath of the plugin already then it might even crash with a weird Exception.
I've seen such problems in the wild. This is nothing which slf4j does wrong - it's just not really possible to do it 100% right. We imo only have the option to choose between different kinds of 'broken'. LieGrue, strub ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jason van Zyl <ja...@tesla.io> > To: Maven Developers List <dev@maven.apache.org>; Mark Struberg > <strub...@yahoo.de> > Cc: > Sent: Sunday, September 9, 2012 4:22 PM > Subject: Re: SLF4J implementation [was Re: svn commit: r1380105 - in > /maven/maven-3/trunk: ./ apache-maven/ > maven-core/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/classrealm/ maven-embedder/ > maven-embedder/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/cli/] > > > On Sep 9, 2012, at 4:17 AM, Mark Struberg wrote: > >> Can you again please explain me what the benefit of the SLF4J abstraction > over the already used plexus.Logger is? Both are just logging facades. >> > > But really I think the biggest benefit is that, as far as I know, SLF4J > integrates with every known logging framework right now. In that it can > coerce > JUL, and CL logging into a unified framework which I don't believe any of > the other frameworks do, or do as well. Maven is about integration and for > logging I believe it's the best solution that exists for the least effort. > > I think it's been adopted at Apache by so many projects specifically for > those reasons. Ceki is also a committer, and will help us fix anything when > necessary so that, again, we can focus on Maven and not logging. > > Thanks, > > Jason > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Jason van Zyl > Founder & CTO, Sonatype > Founder, Apache Maven > http://twitter.com/jvanzyl > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Selfish deeds are the shortest path to self destruction. > > -- The Seven Samuari, Akira Kurosawa > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org