Costin,
>>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)
>> }
>>
>
>In other words, you also want a 'push' model for the logger. Curently each
>component is supposed to 'pull' the logger.
>
Not wishing to be political, just to furnish you with info, the 'push'
model is described as 'Inversion of Control' -->
http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/framework/inversion-of-control.html
- Paul
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