[jboss-dev] slf4j

[Adrian]

On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 15:17 +0200, Rémy Maucherat wrote:
> On 7/5/07, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:
> > I am considering moving Hibernate to use slf4j instead of commons-logging.  I
> > had been considering moving to straight log4j usage anyway to get MDC/NDC
> > capability, but slf4j just added this capability.  So it now has all the
> > capabilities I need.
> >
> > Just curious whether anyone has seen it used within JBoss AS and what the
> > experiences were.
> 
> It is natural IMO that this facade exposes features from log4j since
> the author is the same. Personally, I try to avoid log4j at all costs,
> since it is by design less robust than java.util.logging
> (java.util.logging is using a singleton design, and lives in the JVM
> classloader, so there cannot be any class conflicts).
> 

I think you'll find the "no conflicts" has more to do with the fact 
that you can't load a class that begins in "java." outside 
the bootstrap classloader.

This has nothing to do with "design". You could define
similar rules in other classloaders.

> Rémy
> 
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