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http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13201 Remove default log4j configuration Summary: Remove default log4j configuration Product: Commons Version: 1.0.1 Final Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: Other Component: Logging AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am requesting that the code added to Log4JCategory in commons-logging-1.0.1 that sets up a default initialization in log4j be removed. Why? When I put 1.0.1 in place of 1.0, I started getting extraneous messages logged to the console. Subsequent research led me to the new initialization code in Log4JCategory. The problem is in the way the initialization code tries to decide if log4j has been configured. It assumes that the root category has been configured with an appender. I happen to have a log4j properties configuration that doesn't configure an appender, so the initialization code couldn't tell that log4j had been configured, it created the default root appender, and I started getting the extraneous messages. I realize there are easy workarounds for my particular problem, but I believe this presents a more philosophical issue. Quoting from the commons-logging api org.apache.commons.logging package description: "The basic principle is that the user is totally responsible for the configuration of the underlying logging system. Commons-logging should not change the existing configuration." The code in question directly violates this expressly stated principal and is inappropriate. Allowing this code to remain opens a Pandora's box of attempts to configure the underlying logger, which should be resisted based on the above principal. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
