[jboss-dev] Re: slf4j

[Steve Ebersole]

On Friday 06 July 2007 11:55:52 am Jason T. Greene wrote:
> 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!!

Of course!

But why should I care.  I don't want to write logging frameworks.  I can't 
think of anything more f'n boring.