Joe already has one of these - http://www.epesh.com/logtags.jsp - but I
don't see how this solves your problem at all.
This allows you to log messages from within a JSP. People can already do
this.
What we need is debugging information / errors logged from within tags.
There's no other way to do this than add log4j logging to each taglib. (If
we decide it's necessary). I don't see how creating a log taglib helps.
-mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Glenn Nielsen
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 11:47 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: log4j dependency in taglibs?
>
>
> I agree that log4j is a very nice API for logging.
>
> Rather than add log4j logging to every taglib, perhaps it would
> be better to just develope a logging taglib which uses log4j.
> The latest version of log4j has the ability to create a Category instance
> using a CategoryFactory, so the taglib could also support using JNDI
> named references for logging.
>
> Regards,
>
> Glenn
>
> Shawn Bayern wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Mike Cannon-Brookes wrote:
> >
> > > All of my taglibs use log4j for logging. The problem I find with
> > > Servletcontext.log() is that it's usually not as configurable as log4j
> > > (SMTPAppender is my friend) and can't legally be accessed from other
> > > tiers of your application such as clients or EJBs. Using log4j across
> > > the app provides a central point of logging.
> >
> > Right -- I think the point is just that sometimes you want more control
> > over logging than your servlet container provides, or you want to
> > standardize on a logging mechanism across a company or
> enterprise without
> > worrying what specific servlet container is being used.
> >
> > My design methodology is similar to what you describe, Mike,
> although like
> > I said, I tend to try to localize logging code as much as possible, not
> > doing it "across the app" if I can help it. But that's largely
> because I
> > tend to need to log only exceptional conditions.
> >
> > Shawn
>
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