In the case of Cargo does it fork by default and there the logging is all self-contained by virtue of running in its own VM?
On Oct 12, 2012, at 8:12 AM, Anders Hammar <and...@hammar.net> wrote: >> In the context of Maven, is there any added value in pluging having a >> separated logging environment? If there is no added value, then merged >> logging is the way to go. > > Could one possible case be a plugin which embeds some "framework" > which uses slf4j to log to it's own log file(s)? And in this case you > might want to keep the original framework's default logging behavior. > Don't know of such case in reality, but it popped to my mind thinking > about how the Cargo plugin works. It embeds an app server or web > container and that container could be using slf4j already. Currently > Cargo only supports Jetty in embedded mode though, and I don't know if > Jetty uses slf4j or some other logging framework/API. > > If all logging from the embedded framework gets directed to the Maven > output console, it could get messy. I'm thinking something like how > the surefire plugin works where the user is directed to the surefire > reports for further problem info (stacktraces etc.) > > Well, just some thoughts. > > /Anders > >> >> >> -- >> Ceki >> 65% of statistics are made up on the spot >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder & CTO, Sonatype Founder, Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl --------------------------------------------------------- happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder ... -- Thoreau