> But as Mark's loggers are 'static', don't they have the same > semantics WRT serialization as 'instance transient' ?
Should be. After deserialization, all static fields should be (re-)initialized, thus, leading to logger being present, class-wide. > If so, Mark's would seem more efficient to me (though I could be > wrong) due to reduced object instantiations. Static avoids one "if" per method call. Indeed, singleton design pattern seams much more efficient with static initialization, than "if (singleton == null) { init() }" pattern. Nix. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]