I'm sorry, but this whole logging discussion is just plain stupid and I'm sick of hearing it.
Define a set of interfaces and implement those interfaces with a thin wrapper around whatever logging system people want to use. I have done this with both Turbine and Velocity. Turbine's implementation is even more complex because I abstracted the configuration of the log system into another set of interfaces that allows people to use either a XML file or a .properties file (or whatever) to configure whatever logger you want. I don't give a shit which tool is better faster or whatever. Just create Ant's system to plug in whatever tool you want. You are of course more than welcome to adapt what I have done for Velocity and Turbine into Ant. So, can we please end this and just move on? -jon
