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

[Bill Burke]

On 6/6/12 2:41 PM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
> 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. :)
>

"easy to use" is certainly your perception, not mine.

And my logger is not a full-blown abstraction, just a small wrapper over 
existing logging frameworks.  But...since you couldn't provide simple 
methods like:

String getMessage(long messageId, Object... params);
info(long messageId, Object... params)

I'm stuck writing Yet Another Redundant Fucking Logging Abstraction for 
i18n because I absolutely refuse to be dependent on any specific Yet 
Another Fucking Logging Abstraction.

-- 
Bill Burke
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