Hi Boris,

Boris Unckel wrote on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 6:50 PM:

> Hello Simon,
> 
> Simon Kitching wrote:
>> Would you both mind explaining what benefits you see in a new JCL
>> implementation that cannot be obtained via java.util.logging?
>> 
> this is possible already today with x4juli, it does have a JCL native
> implementation. 
> 
>> I'm no fan of the j.u.l design, but it seems to me less effort to
>> use it than to fight it. What have I not understood?

[snip]

> One last point: The extension of JUL always requires classes on the
> system classpath. This is especially
> annoying if you have application specific dynamic filters in
> a container
> because you cannot deploy everything
> together, you must change the container config.

Yeah. That was one of my traps when I naively implemented a much more useful 
formatting. IMHO this is the main reason why JUL fails to attract people.

>> And what would a new JCL do for anyone that they could not do by just
>> using SLF4J via its JCL API? The SLF4J team have already done a lot
>> of hard work; what benefit would there be to duplicating that?
> The benefit is to have the same way of control as SLF4J.
> Maybe the need
> for bridging is heavily
> reduced. I personally do not like the JCL -> SLF4J ->
> CurrentUnderlyingLibrary or the
> SLF4J -> JCL -> CurrentUnderlyingLibrary way. It seems better
> to me to
> have both wrappers
> directly sending to the underlying library.
> 
> This code has been presented to be discussed, to get away from
> theoretical thoughts without any prove of concept or similiar -
> thanks for participating 
> the discussion.
> What is your prefered way of underlying library discovery?

Configuration.

- Jörg

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