Re: Review request: 7006814 "sun.util.logging.PlatformLogger ability to override the output format"

[Alan Bateman]

Mandy Chung wrote:
:
As Eamonn said, I don't think we can change the default of 
SimpleFormatter to one line as it would break existing 
apps/scripts/tools that depend on the format.

When j.u.logging is enabled (e.g. the j.u.logging API is called), it 
will use the SimpleFormatter as the default.  If the platform logger 
uses one-line format, the output will be inconsistent depending on 
whether the j.u.logging API is used by the application.  Keeping the 
default same as j.u.logging avoids the confusion.
Right, but it seems very strange that the property only controls whether 
the platform logger emits the one-line format. It doesn't seem to be too 
much additional work to have SimpleFormatter do the same, or are you 
assuming that applications wanting a one-line format will configure 
their own formatter with java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.formatter?

-Alan.