I've come out before against adding Yet Another Logging Package
(YALP) to
our set of jar files, and while I'd still really prefer to avoid doing
that I thought I would offer support for going with
java.util.logging, in
that if JSPWiki relied entirely on it I'd be willing (and relatively
happy) to go to the trouble of moving my own code over to that for the
same reasons as you state: I'd like to remove unnecessary dependencies
and reduce the overall weight of my installations. The redundancies of
the current situation are likewise frustrating.
Unfortunately, java.util.logging does not reduce our dependencies at
all. Some external jars that we have require commons logging, some
require log4j, so we can't get rid of those.
Moving to jabsorb in preference of jsonrpc lib means that we have to
*add* another set of logging libraries, namely slf4j.
java.util.logging does not really help the situation at all (and in
fact, makes it worse, since j.u.l does not support multiple logging
configurations per jvm, which is pretty much a showstopper for my own
installations, for example.)
/Janne
