I did a new checkout of the displaytags stuff this morning in order to
correct Neal's problem with incidental use of the 1.4 API... and the
local.properties is a little odd.

For one thing, ant has a built-in classpath; why are we using explicit
references to jars when simply including all files in ./lib would do the
same thing? (IMHO, servlet.jar should be included in the CVS tree, if only
to make it a "check out and build" process.)

<bias>
Likewise... reliance on log4j for logging is a little severe (again,
IMHO). For one thing, log4j is 160K of "maybe we want it." Yuck. Also,
log4j use is becoming less popular in the face of two other things: 1.4's
built-in logging and Jakarta's commons-logging, which is a front end for
log4j and the 1.4 logging (and doesn't require either). commons-logging is
also MUCH, MUCH smaller than log4j. In addition to that, I have my OWN
logging project, smaller than commons-logging (21K), that is an n-space
logger instead of a hierarchical logger (and includes a mechanism by which
you can trace method calls made into a given class, if you like, without
having explicit logging calls.)

I'm biased, obviously. I'm not changing any of this; I just wanted to run
it by you. My logger is at http://enigmastation.com/ln2, if you're
interested... which reminds me, I need to update the web site to cover
recently-added features. :)
</bias>

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http://enigmastation.com                    IT Consultant



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