Hi Mauro, On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 23:16, Mauro Talevi wrote: > 1. what is the recommended way of enabling logging in classes that do > not extend AbstractLogEnabled, > eg in helper type classes that do not necessarily fit into the Avalon > framework?
In general it is recomended that anything that we want to log implements LogEnabled and gets passed a Logger. Alternatively you can pass the Logger via some other mechanism (like in constructor). > What if one wishes to not implement > Contextualizable, ie the helper > class is part of a different jar and one wants to keep separate from the > Avalon framework? Then you need to write a bridge of some sort to this components own logging mechanism. > 2. I assume that the default logger is Avalon Logkit. correct. > I read it is > possible to use other loggers, such as log4j or > JDK1.4, but have not found the information on how to configure Phoenix > to use these loggers. At this stage I am not sure how easy it is. I believe you have to write your own custom LogManager and place it inside the kernel. A few people have done this but no one has submitted it back to Phoenix. > > 3. logs version 1.1 vs 1.0: it seems that 1.1 uses the Excalibur Logger > only for configuration, Correct. Excalibur Loggers only purpose is to configure a Log system. > but still uses > LogKit for logging. Again, can this configuration be used with other > loggers, such as log4j? There is a Log4jLogManager. I haven't used it myself but it should be possible to set up - though we may need to enhance Phoenixs DefaultLogManager to use that (possibly version "1.1Log4j" or something. > Is 1.1 the recommended version? yep. > 4. Log4j vs LogKit: can anybody point me to some documentation (if any) > that compares the two and > discusses their merits? Not very clear to me what one offers over the > other. LogKit is smaller, faster and more designed for embedding inside other toolkits. -- Cheers, Peter Donald *------------------------------------------------* | You can't wake a person who is pretending | | to be asleep. -Navajo Proverb. | *------------------------------------------------* -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
