On 9/12/07, Maarten Bosteels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello community,
>
> On the trunk, most mina sub-projects have a dependency on slf4j-simple, with
> scope = test
>
>     <dependency>
>       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
>       <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
>       <version>1.4.3</version>
>       <scope>test</scope>
>     </dependency>
>
> But mina-example has a dependency on slf4j-log4j12  with scope=runtime.

It's because it's an example.  Example needs at least one binding at runtime.

> When I generate IDEA projects files using mvn idea:idea
> the mina-example module has two slf4j bindings in its classpath:
>   slf4j-log4j12 because it's in the pom.xml
>   slf4j-simple because the module depends on the mina-core module
>
> As a consequence, when I am running examples from within IDEA,
> it's unpredictable which binding will be used.
>
> I haven't tried this in eclipse, but I suspect the problem will exist there
> as well.
>
> So I think we should use the same slf4j binding for all modules.
> I would propose slf4j-log4j12 because it is of course far more flexible than
> slf4j-simple.
> Besides, I am writing a test-case for the MDCInjectionFilter that depends on
> log4j.
>
> Note this change doesn't affect the users of MINA at all: they can still use
> the slf4j binding of their choice.
>
> What do you guys think ?

You made a good point.  Let's move on to slf4j-log4j12.

> (thanks for reading this far)

I wouldn't mind your post!

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