Re: [jboss-as7-dev] manual way to do logging?

On 06/06/2012 01:32 PM, Bill Burke wrote: > > > On 6/6/12 2:11 PM, David M. Lloyd wrote: >> On 06/06/2012 12:35 PM, Bill Burke wrote: >>> I do not want to use the JBoss Logging annotation framework as I do not >>> want to have a hard dependency on JBoss Logging for my project. >>> >>> Is there a manual API that I can use instead to build a message? >>> Something like: >>> >>> String getMessage(long id, Object... params); >> >> No, there isn't (and if there were, it'd be part of JBoss Logging, >> so...). You can however use the maven-shade-plugin to slurp the JBoss >> Logging classes into your project (even under another package name). >> It's a pretty small project and we're working to make it smaller. >> > > Eh, I guess I could just use reflection techniques to create my own > abstraction and stuff the logging interfaces in a separate jar. > > BTW, this is ridiculously over-engineered and at least for me, harder to > adapt to my project. These engineering hours could have been better > spent elsewhere. Yes, creating your own abstraction when there's a perfectly good one ready and easy to use is indeed over-engineering. :)