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

[Jason T. Greene]

On 6/6/12 1:32 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.

You don't have to use it. You just need a message format that meets 
TAG-2. Everything the framework does, is meets the TAG-3 requirements 
(discussed ad nauseam years ago).

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Jason T. Greene
JBoss AS Lead / EAP Platform Architect
JBoss, a division of Red Hat