Christopher Schultz wrote:
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André,
I'm disappointed in your unwillingness to read documentation for
libraries that you use. You wouldn't call General Electric to ask them
how to cool a steak just because you keep it cold in a GE freezer. By
the same token, don't expect anyone in the Tomcat community to give you
a primer on how to configure log4j when the documentation is just
begging to be read over at logging.apache.org. :(
I like the above analogy, but it begs for another one :
I don't own a GE fridge, but I (occasionally) drive a BMW car. It is
quite sophisticated, and most of the driver controls (lights, window
wipers, radio, etc..) are made by Bosch or some other car-equipment
supplier.
Yet, when I want to know how to turn on the window-wipers, BMW doesn't
tell me to go read and understand the Bosch technical documentation for
ditto. Instead they provide a nice BMW User's Guide who tells me
exactly which button to press, even though they don't make the
window-wipers themselves.
Granted, the BMW costs quite a bit more than a Tomcat instance (at least
as far as the up-front cost is concerned; maintenance is a more
contentious issue).
But then, both need users in order to survive, and not all users are
engineers. So BMW bites the bullet and makes a nice and readable User's
Guide, which helps in making their cars popular to the masses.
What I am saying, is that I understand what you're saying, and I agree
that one can't do everything, and that people who develop Tomcat and
log4j, and make it available for free, deserve credit, a lot of it.
But for a mere user who would just like to use Tomcat, the documentation
of log4j (and commons-logging) is obscure to say the least, and an
absolute overkill when it comes to find out how to merely change the
name of a logfile.
Would'nt you think so ?
;-)
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