Logging in compliance to J2EE specification.

[Bram Smeets]

I’m currently looking into the issue of logging within a J2EE/EJB environment. There are a lot of logging solutions available, but there seems to be no solution that can be used in conformance with the J2EE/EJB specification. The main problem is that there’s no way to initialize a system-wide logging solution at startup. All solutions to this problem that I’ve seen so far are based on vendor-specific services for system-wide initialization. This is an option if you’re developing an application for a certain application server, but we’re developing a component library. So we don’t want to restrict the number of application servers our components can be deployed on and we don’t want to include server-specific classes. So my main question is: Are there any J2EE/EJB compatible logging facilities available? Which implies the question of whether Log4j and Sun’s JSR47 API are J2EE compliant?  I would like to receive some input on this discussion… Bram Smeets SmartHaven