"Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/27/2004 
02:57:45 AM:

> "Charles Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Ceki G�lc� [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> >> Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 11:24 AM
> >> To: [email protected]
> >> Subject: commons-logging auto-detection WAS: [logging] 
> >> Enterprise Common Logging... dare we say 2.0?
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Simon et al.
> >> 
> >> Log4j is slowly migrating to a model where there will be only a 
single
> >> log4j.jar installed per Application Server. This single copy will be
> >> installed under the ./common/lib or ./lib/ directories. See 
> >> [1, 2, 3] for
> >> further details.
> >> 
> >> Consider the case of single log4j.jar placed in ./common/lib, and two
> >> web-applications called 'A' and 'B' both built on top of Struts. Also
> >> assume that user of 'A' wishes to use JDK logging (j.u.l) whereas the
> >> user of application 'B' wishes to use log4j. Since Struts uses JCL,
> >> there is no way for user of application 'A' to direct the logs
> >> generated by Struts to go to j.u.l and at the same time to have 
Struts
> >> in application 'B' direct its logging output to log4j. (Setting the
> >> org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory system property will not help
> >> because system properties are shared by all applications.)
> >> 
> >> This simple example shows that the current JCL discovery mechanism
> >> will not always work as intended.
> 
> >If I understand the JCL discovery mechanism correctly, it actually
> >should work just fine in the scenario you describe above.  For it to

Not to mention within a J2EE environment, you can bind properties [such as 
org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory] to the ClassLoader.  This has to be 
done by the J2EE application prior to any invocation of LogFactory, but 
it's do-able.

Hmm.... not so sure this works in JCL, but it does with JCDiscovery.

> Yep. Which once again shows, that using JCL in a component is a _good_
> thing, even though Ceki will never cease to argue against it. :-)

Humor aside, Ceki has taken a very reasonable view of JCL.  Please, let's 
not incite to humor-wars here.

> 
>    Regards
>       Henning
> 
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