At 03:54 21/2/01, Rodney Waldhoff wrote:
>>Many projects encapsulate log4j in wrappers. I guess that approach is
>>similar to option 1. The wrapper is the interface and the underlying
>>implementation is log4j.
>
>Right on. The Adapter pattern would seem to serve us well here--we settle
>on some reasonable standard/conventional logging implementation and code
>everything to that interface. Other logging implementations can be used by
>either sharing that conventional interface, or by providing an adapter that
>maps the conventinal interface to the "unconventional" one.
Well the most basic adaptor would be
interface LoggerAdaptor
{
void log( String message );
void log( String message, Throwable throwable );
}
Cheers,
Pete
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