I think you need to mention JDK logging as well event if it not as powerful as log4j. I don't think the articles are any more relevant to JCL 1.1.
Regards Jeff MAURY On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Sagara Gunathunga < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm planning to resolve WODEN-71 [1] and this is related to > AXIS2-4334 [2] issue too. There are two good candidates here SLF4J > [3] and Log4J [4] , i have went through the both if them but still my > mind is swing between these two for best selection. > > Option 1- SLF4J > > If we consider Woden project as alone SLF4J is the best way to handle > this ,SLF4J free from problems available with JCL and enable users to > select their convenient logging implementation while SLF4J only act > as a Facade. Since Woden is a utility project providing such > flexibility is a good feature. > > The main drawback is need to add at least 3 jars to Classpath > slf4j-api , slf-Binding and actual logger implementation jar file. As > a example if some one want to use SLF4J with Log4J he have to add > slf4j-api.jar ,slf4j-log4j.jar together with log4j.jar. Logging is a > important feature but in our case it is not a core feature of Woden > , so I think asking users to add three new dependencies only because > of longing is decrease the usability of Woden. > > > Option 2- Log4J > > Log4J also free from those Class loading issues of JCL and users need > to add only one jar file (log4j.jar) as a new dependency. But main > drawback is we loose the flexibility and force users to use log4j as > the logging framework. > > > Guys. please provide your feedbacks about these two options ? > > > > [1] - http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WODEN-71 > [2]- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-4334 > [3]- http://www.slf4j.org/ > [4] - http://logging.apache.org/log4j/ > > > Thanks , > > -- > Sagara Gunathunga > > Blog - http://ssagara.blogspot.com > Web - http://people.apache.org/~sagara/<http://people.apache.org/%7Esagara/> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- La mélancolie c’est communiste Tout le monde y a droit de temps en temps La mélancolie n’est pas capitaliste C’est même gratuit pour les perdants La mélancolie c’est pacifiste On ne lui rentre jamais dedans La mélancolie oh tu sais ça existe Elle se prend même avec des gants La mélancolie c’est pour les syndicalistes Il faut juste sa carte de permanent Miossec (2006) http://www.jeffmaury.com http://riadiscuss.jeffmaury.com http://www.lastfm.fr/listen/user/jeffmaury/personal
