well both are true so as usual the conclusion is "depend on your case". BTW static is almost always fine in practise for standard apps. Romain Manni-Bucau Twitter: @rmannibucau Blog: http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com/ LinkedIn: http://fr.linkedin.com/in/rmannibucau Github: https://github.com/rmannibucau
2014/1/13 Howard W. Smith, Jr. <[email protected]>: > more to share, below. > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 7:06 AM, Howard W. Smith, Jr. < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Okay, never mind. I took the liberty to search google for: >> >> static Logger logger = LoggerFactory >> >> and found this[1], which makes it abundantly clear why I should define the >> logger as 'static'. As always, thanks Romain! >> >> >> [1] >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6653520/why-do-we-declare-loggers-static-final >> > > While I reading stackoverflow question/answers (URL above), someone > referenced the URL below, > > http://www.slf4j.org/faq.html#declared_static > > which references the following: > > http://wiki.apache.org/commons/Logging/StaticLog > > I also recognized that I +1 that stackoverflow question and Tomasz answer > some time in the past, so i think I 'avoided' static, because of all the > URLs I mentioned above.
