Re: [jboss-dev] Re: slf4j

On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 11:42 +0200, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote: > >> MDC). That means I can move to log4j, slf4j, or logback. Out of > >> those, slf4j seemed the most reasonable in terms of allowing easy > >> integration with > >> various environemtns. > > > > As I said a couple messages above, java.util.logging is more robust, > > and allows formatters which could use thread local variables (I find > > this habit of using hypish names to refer to simple pre-existing > > things to be very annoying). > > > > You don't really seem to be interested in our opinion overall, and > > seem to be willing to use slf4j anyway, so I'm not sure what's the > > point of posting here. > > > > Rémy > > Eh - Steve very clearly explained why jul is is not an option; it does > not have NDC/MDC. As Remmy said, this is easy to implement (it just a fancy name for using a thread local). Also, I just looked at sl4j's source, and it relies on the logging backend to actually implement MDC and NDC, so if you use it's JUL backend it doesn't work!!