>>> >>> Or am I missing something obvious? >>> >> >> There is an ideal (which we seem to get further and further from) that the >> JVM should be unloadable within a process. In that model everything we >> initialize we should "de-initialize" before termination. And when logging >> itself can depend on facilities that are themselves "torn down" during >> termination we can have problems in trying to log too late, just as we can >> trying to log too early.
Interesting… Thanks for the explanation. >> >> > Ok, I agree with you. Both on the long term goal of being unloadable and > that the logging system needs other subsystems (e.g thread locals) which > need to be life too. I have generally found that at a certain depth you cannot avoid circular dependencies. If everything depends on logging and logging depends on anything…. Regards, Kirk
