My 2 cents: there was a JSR, 47 I think, apache was the only one who voted No in the final ballot .. sometimes being more flexible isn't good.. I'd vote for sticking with what comes with the JDK.. it reduces the version-clashes (classloader issues) that I have seen so often creep up when you try and deploy two applications using two different versions of the same logging framework... and things get even more complicated when the container itself uses yet another version!
Dave, No bug/change request filed on what you pointed at? If not then I'd say file one...
