Ok, I haven't been a big fan of Yet Another Logging Impl, but I'll leave
that behind me, and propose we crib an idea from avalon, and hop on the
bandwagon.
The problem is this - we are doing a set of tools in velocity's tool
subproject, and some may want a logger. In the spirit of Jakarta, we are
reinventing the wheel again ("look Og, round! Burns too!" - I guess we got
fire as part of the bargain) and I don't want to.
What we need is a marker interface that indicates a tool wants a logger, and
of course a method to give it the logger... I did a quick scan of the
public API, and there doesn't seem to be one.
So what I propose is to add an interface 'LogUser' or something like it (we
can quibble about the name...)
public interface LogUser
{
public void setCommonsLogger(Log log)
}
So we have a common way to plant a logger. I am guessing this is probably
yet another thing stolen from Avalon, so I'll be up front now about that :)
As I personally believe that just being a commons committer doesn't give me
the 'spirit-of-the-law' right to commit to the logger, I'll ask for some
even vague hint of approval from the logger people before moving forward.
geir
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