I'm honestly surprised that there was no collaboration between SLF4J or Log4j about this considering most implementations of the service will end up delegating to Log4j2 or Logback most likely (see pax-logging for example).
On 6 April 2017 at 13:58, BJ Hargrave <hargr...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > It is indeed a service. The spec writing for these changes are not in the > draft spec so you can see https://github.com/osgi/design/blob/master/rfcs/ > rfc0219/rfc-0219-LogService-Update.pdf for some more detail/background on > the change. > > > Also see https://github.com/osgi/slf4j-osgi which holds an slf4j binding > to the new Log Service. > -- > > BJ Hargrave > Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM // office: +1 386 848 1781 > <(386)%20848-1781> > OSGi Fellow and CTO of the OSGi Alliance // mobile: +1 386 848 3788 > <(386)%20848-3788> > hargr...@us.ibm.com > > > > ----- Original message ----- > From: Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> > Sent by: osgi-dev-boun...@mail.osgi.org > To: OSGi Developer Mail List <osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org> > Cc: > Subject: Re: [osgi-dev] Log Service Specification Version 1.4 doubt > Date: Thu, Apr 6, 2017 2:11 PM > > As long as LoggerFactory is a service and not a static singleton like in > SLF4J and Log4j2, then the API makes sense in an OSGi context. If it's yet > another static factory, then I'd promote the use of Log4j2 instead as we > don't need yet another logging facade. > > On 6 April 2017 at 12:27, Cristiano Gavião <cvgav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > I was reading today the early draft of compendium 7.0.0. > > I saw two interfaces that caught my attention: LoggerFactory and Logger. > > could someone explain me the idea behind them? why not importing/extending > interfaces from org.slf4j.api instead? > > If I understood it right, LoggerFactory is aimed to be used as a service, > but I wondering, it would be possible to obtain a Logger from the factory > statically as well as we do when using sfl4j/logback on non-service classes? > > thanks, > > Cristiano > > _______________________________________________ > OSGi Developer Mail List > osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org > https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev > > > > -- > Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> > _______________________________________________ > OSGi Developer Mail List > osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org > https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OSGi Developer Mail List > osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org > https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
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