Hi Johann, Jackrabbit uses SLF4J in order to be able to choose the logging implementation you want to use at deployment time (http://www.slf4j.org/). If you include a org.slf4j.slf4j-jdk jar next to the jackrabbit jars then the default Java logger is used. I hope that helps you.
Best regards, Martijn > -----Original Message----- > From: sorel [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 12:35 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Logger politic in Jackrabbit 2 > > Hello, > > I'm starting to work with jackrabbit for a Geographic library, > GeotoolKit (http://www.geotoolkit.org). > > Since our library is huge and has plenty of dependencies (jfreechart, > ardor3d, jasperreport ...) total 40Mb, 125 jar files. > Every project we are related to has more or less it's own Logging > politic. > - Log4J > - Commons-logging > - slf4j > - jlo > and some others ... > > I believe that everyone will understand that all thoses logging systems > brings some redundant functionalities and a mess when we want to > configure the loggers. So our project has choosen a be neutral and uses > the default Java logger. We even asked some other project if a similar > neutral politic could be adopted too, sometimes with success sometimes > being ignored. > > This might be a selfish request, but I would like to know if there is a > reason for the choice of slf4j over the standard logger in jackrabbit ? > Is the standard logger unappropriate ? > > > johann sorel > Geomatys
