Some reading on this topic from SLF4J's FAQ: http://www.slf4j.org/faq.html#optional_dependency
-Vincent On May 11, 2011, at 2:24 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: > Hi devs, > > After progressing on the new logging implementation I've come to the > conclusion that we don't need our own facade in xwiki-commons-logging. I > started doing the facade and then hit the issue that we need a facade for the > MDC feature too (Mapped Diagnostic Context) so that would be one more class > to add. If you follow in the direction what will happen is that we will, in > the end, completely copy the slf4j-api sources, just under a different name. > > So my proposal is that we standardize on the SLF4J API and use it directly > without any facade. > > The rationale is: > * The SLF4J API is in a single jar (slf4j-api.jar) which is a minimal JAR > weighting 23KB (small) > * The SLF4J API can be implemented over all existing logging systems. There > are currently implementation for at least log4j, jdk14 logging, commons > logging, logback and more. So it's ensured that if we wanted we would be able > to write our own implementation of it for whatever log system that can come > up. > * That's one more thing that we don't have to maintain > * It's very mature since the guy who wrote it (Ceki) has gone through the > log4j experience > > Here's my +1 > > Thanks > -Vincent > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
