Hello Jason,
Jason Novotny wrote:
I'm writing a library that will be used by multiple webapps in
Tomcat and wondering what are the tradeoffs between each of the
logging libraries to use with this library. The 3 I'm considering are
commons-logging, log4j, and JDK logger class... should it matter which
one I use if the library is in shared/lib? For instance if I use
log4j, it seems that I would also have to deploy log4j in shared/lib
too I believe.
for a library I would take commons-logging out of the three you
mentioned. The administrator can choose beetwen log4j or Tomcat JULI or
x4juli for the whole server and therefore for your application at runtime.
Did you take a look at SLF4J at http://slf4j.org as possible Logging Wrapper API?
What logging API is used within the webapps? This may also be a point.
Regards
Boris
