One thought to consider is that thre is a standard loging API that will
start showing up in Merlin (J2SE 1.4). THta is JSR-47
(http://java.sun.com/aboutJava/communityprocess/jsr/jsr_047_log.html).
If jakarta-taglibs adds a dependency on any other logging API, perhaps
it could do so it is relatively easy to use the standard API when it
starts showing up?
- eduard/o
Mike Cannon-Brookes wrote:
>
> 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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