commons-logging is currently broken. i think that it shound be fixed.

maybe paulo's suggestion would make more sense as a competing branch - 
commons-logging 2.0? that way, people can take a look at the actual code 
but we don't have to stop development on other components until it's 
finished.

- robert


On Thursday, December 20, 2001, at 11:23 PM, Paulo Gaspar wrote:

> That was THE reason why I adopted Avalon new wrappers instead. I ported
> them out of Avalon and they work just fine. There are NO dependencies
> from the rest of the framework except for a formatter that can be
> dropped.
>
> I also improved (IMHO) an existing AbstractLoggable class and I am now
> porting an XML based configurator for LogKit from Avalon Excalibur. This
> one has more dependencies but it is ok.
>
> Next I will adapt the simple property configuration code for LogKit and
> Log4J used at Velocity, (will looking at Turbine too).
>
> So, this set includes:
>  - Wrappers for Log4J, LogKit and the JDK 1.4 Logging API;
>  - Really simple internal logger + NoOp logger;
>  - Log4J has its own XML configuration and LogKit gets one;
>  - Ability to use a hierarchy of loggers in an API independent way.
>    Only the configuration is API dependent.
>
> Will soon (next week) include simple property configuration.
>
> Still no plans on evolving the JDK 1.4 Logging API.
>
>
> This is the best logging code I found around Jakarta. It just picked
> it from several projects and would like to see it together in the
> Commons where it would have a wider use. And it is working fine
> across a 500 class and 75 Kloc piece of code.
>
> My interest is to keep the functionality I have now without being
> alone taking care of it. (Trying to cut on the above numbers.)
> =:o)
>
>
> If there is interest I can put it a "commons" package and post it
> tomorrow.
>
>
> Have fun,
> Paulo Gaspar
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: robert burrell donkin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 11:20 PM
>> To: Jakarta Commons Developers List
>> Subject: (Logging)[Proposal] A little refactoring
>>
>>
>> i've been adding logging (using commons-logging) into betwixt and found
>> that commons-logging is a little bit broken. rather than fix the
>> symptom -
>> that the log level constants were altered a little and that broke
>> a lot of
>> code - i'd prefer to refactor by introducing an abstract implementation
>> Log that handles the log level logic (ie. stops calls going to the
>> implementation implementation) and make the existing implementations
>> inherit. hopefully this would stop logging breaking like that again.
>>
>> i'm willing to code these changes if this plan's acceptable.
>>
>> - robert
>>
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