My goal is for my code to not care if I'm using Log4j's logger or the logger from Java 1.4. Even though I'm planning to use Log4j, I want to be able to change without altering the debugging statements if need be. It's also key to be able to change the level in the configuration file on the fly to alter the debugging behavior since restarting the application is really not an option in the field.
If I use logger.log(Level, message) the same code can use either library. The problem is that the levels don't match up (except for ALL and INFO). To allow more levels I created MyLevel (based it on the XLevel example) to include MyLevel.FINE, MyLevel.FINER, and MyLevel.FINEST. This works if I code in the setting of the level (logger.setLevel(MyLevel.FINER)) but it does not pick it up from my configuration file since the configuration file reader does not know about the MyLevel subclass. Is there a way to specify this that I'm missing? If not it would be nice to have an attribute in the config file to allow you to identify a different Level implementation to use. I searched through the mailing list archives for information about this but did not find anything. I apologize if I'm repeating an old discussion. Thanks for you attention! -Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
