Thanks for all of the responses. They've gotten away from my original question just a bit.
Assuming that I am using the Commons Logging package/Log4j in my beans, and I want to log something to the Tomcat log file, how can the bean obtain the output stream for the Tomcat log file in a webapp framework independent way --- i.e. I don't want to pass the ActionServlet object to the bean and use its log method, as the bean would then be tied to a particular web application framework (in this case, Struts), which would inhibit its reusability. Instead, I would want to pass something more generic, java.io.OuputStream-like, to the bean, so that it can use whatever logging package I have chosen to log to this stream. The question is really, how do I obtain the java.io.OutputStream for the Tomcat log file in my Struts action class so that I can pass it as a parameter to my bean methods. Charlie On Tuesday 26 February 2002 10:04 am, you wrote: > I think it is nice to use Commons Logging just so you > have the option of easily switching to another logging > framework. You may want to use some other logging > framework other than Log4J (my choice) or Jdk1.4 at > some point. You won't have to change any of you code > if you use Commons Logging. Struts 1.1 is going to > use Commons Logging. The Struts shared source is > using it as of last nights build. > > David > > --- keithBacon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anybody know how the new Java 1.4 logging API > > affects things? > > My guess is it increases the desirability of using > > the > > jakarta Commons Logging Package. You can use log4j > > for now & easily switch > > later. > > But for students or people that can gurantee they > > will deploy on Java 1.4 > > shouldn't they just use the JDK logging API > > directly? > > But then surely the next release of struts will use > > the Commons logging so we > > should too? Oh boy. > > > > > > --- David Winterfeldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > I would suggest using the Commons Logging Package > > > (http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/logging.html). > > > This is a generic interface to logging packages. > > > > If > > > > > Log4J is detected, it will use it. > > > > > > excerpt from the website: > > > "The Logging package is an ultra-thin bridge > > > > between > > > > > different logging libraries. Commons components > > > > may > > > > > use the Logging API to remove compile-time and > > > run-time dependencies on any particular logging > > > package, and contributors may write Log > > > implementations for the library of their choice." > > > > > > > > > David > > > > > > --- Phase Web and Multimedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > > log4j would work well. Schedule away a day or so > > > > to > > > > > > become familiar with it > > > > and download the 1.2b3 version. This will insure > > > > that you are prepared for > > > > the future changes in log4j and will keep you > > > > from > > > > > > programming with > > > > deprecated code. > > > > > > > > http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/ > > > > > > > > Brandon Goodin > > > > Phase Web and Multimedia > > > > P (406) 862-2245 > > > > F (406) 862-0354 > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > http://www.phase.ws > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Charlie Toohey > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > > > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 7:28 PM > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Subject: Logging in beans > > > > > > > > > > > > I would like to log some information in the > > > > Tomcat > > > > > > log file from my beans. > > > > But I don't want to use the ActionServlet log > > > > method, as passing an > > > > ActionServlet object as a parameter to a bean > > > > would > > > > > > violate the bean > > > > philosophy that beans should be completely > > > > independent of a web application > > > > framework, such as Struts, for reusability. How > > > > could I just pass in the > > > > Stream to the Tomcat log file to a bean so that > > > > it > > > > > > can log to the Stream and > > > > maintain its web app framework independence ? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Charlie > > > > > > > > -- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Yahoo! 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