Hi Alastair,
One problem that I have come across is that using the APIs from 1.4 requires you to use the appropriate environment, i.e. 1.4. Most Application servers, apart from the open source ones, such as Tomcat and JBoss support previous versions of the environment 1.2 and 1.3. If you are not presented with this problem, I can't offer a detailed opinion on the benefits of using the one versus the other. In a distributed environment you may not have this problem, or if you are not using an application server this is also not a problem as long as you are not restricted by the use of the appropriate environments.
We are currently using Log4J, but this is purely based on the fact that the decision was made before the APIs of 1.4 were available.
Hope this helps
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: Alastair Rodgers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 09 July 2002 02:38
To: JDJList
Subject: [jdjlist] Log4j vs. 1.4/JSR47 Logging API
Hi,
I'm trying to decide whether to use Log4J or the Java 1.4 logging API (JSR47) in a distributed J2EE app.
I've read a lot of opinions expressed favouring Log4J over 'standard' Java 1.4 logging, but most of what I've read seems to be quite old and was written before the final release of the 1.4 API, e.g. http://www.ingrid.org/jajakarta/log4j/jakarta-log4j-1.1.3/docs/critique.html, and I think some changes may have been made to the 1.4 spec as a result of the criticisms.
Can anyone give me an informed opinion of whether there is still such a great difference between these two frameworks, and which they would recommend?
Thanks,
Al.
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