There is one more thing that I would really like to see in log4j 2.0,
namely the ability for a servlet to log to a servlet container using
log4j (and in slf4j too but that is a different story). Currently that
cannot be done, because there is no way for the code asking for the
logger to pass a "this" reference to the logging framework.
I would suggest that in log4j 2.0 the LoggerManager.getLogger()
signature is changed to accept the class (as now), and a varargs of
Objects. The objects are passed to the appender when needing to do the
actual logging, allowing a ServletLoggerAppender to look for any object
extending GenericServlet and invoke its log method.
For client code it would mean that the logger object was retreived
similar to:
Logger log = Logger.getLogger(this.getClass(), this);
We might even consider making the rule in log4j 2.0 that "the name of
the logger is the full name of the class of the first object"[2]. In
that case we could make do with:
Logger log = Logger.getLogger(this);
This would most likely also result in much other code being cleaner by
allowing to drop the "getClass()" clause.
What do you think?
[1]
http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/api/javax/servlet/GenericServlet.html#log%28java.lang.String%29
[2] For backwards compatability instances of Class should be treated
slightly different :)
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