On 8/7/07, Simon Laws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We talked about this before ( > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg16784.html) but > didn't come to any conclusions. So, > > 1/ What is the requirement? > 2/ What is the technical solution? > 3/ When should we try and get it done? > > To get things going again here are some thoughts drawn from what was said > in > the referenced thread. > > 1/ An API in line with accepted logging/management practices to support > arbitrary debugging and runtime info, warning and error logging > A common approach to exception/error handling specifically around the > detail recorded in the error messages > Internationalization/localization > Execution Tracing > > 2/ Keeping it simple was a popular sentiment > A number of java logging solutions have been proposed Log4J, SLF4J > etc. > I believe DAS is using Log4J. > We have dependencies that also use logging tools. We can take a > look > at how others approach this, e.g, quick glance at the last CxF release > shows > they include SLF4J jars > Aspects were investigated to show how they can be used for tracing, > seems like an interesting optional facility but adds extra > complexity/dependencies > There was also a suggestion that we could implement some higher level > tracing, e.g. runtime starts, stops, application loading, component > instance > creation etc. > We need to move error message out of the code and into resource files > > 3/ I think we can reasonably expect to agree what approach we are going to > take fairly quickly and provide some examples, i.e. before the next > release? > People suggested before that we take time out to go through the code > based and bring it into line. This will take a lot of time but can we get > it > into 1.0? > > Please add your thoughts to the list and we can then draw them together, > try > some of it out and come to some conclusions. > > Simon >
+1 for going with SLF4J. If we can decide on this soon then we can all just start adding it in to the code we're working on and debugging, and then maybe have a focused sweep before 1.0 to make sure its in everywhere useful. ...ant
