Hello, As you are probably aware, more and more projects are adopting the SLF4J API. I would venture say that SLF4J's adoption rate is roughly equivalent to that of log4j itself. Although the SLF4J API is not perfect, most SLF4J users seem to be extremely happy with it.
Harry Metske synthesized various logging paths in JSPWiki https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12394188/jspwiki-log.odp I was taken aback by the picture he paints. I think we as log4j committers owe it to Java developers to propose a saner logging model. Given the multiplicity of logging APIs in the Java world, I propose that log4j implement the SLF4J API directly. This can be done in the next version of log4j, say 1.3 or 2.0. Unfortunately, the adoption of the SLF4J API by log4j will be break 100% compatibility with existing log4j clients. More precisely, logging statements passing java.lang.Object as the message parameter will need to be changed to java.lang.String. Assuming that the proportion of logging statements using objects instead string is extremely small, comparatively few users will be affected. More importantly, in my experience, even very large projects can be migrated to the SLF4J API within half an hour. There is even a tool called slf4j-migrator to help with such migration [1]. Is there support for my proposal? [1] http://www.slf4j.org/migrator.html -- Ceki Gülcü --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]