[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (AS7-1389) Log API dependencies should be included automatically in deployments

[Scott Hasse (JIRA)]

    [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-1389?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12934722#comment-12934722 ] 

Scott Hasse commented on AS7-1389:
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The decision to include visibility to specific third party logging implementations by default seems absolutely against the basic philosophy of modules in a JEE container environment.  This sort of logging is simply not a JEE container feature and default visibility should not be provided and the debate should end there.  Those wanting to use the vendor-specific non-spec container facility should be the ones configuring an explicit dependency.

I find David Lloyd's anecdotal observations on which this decision was based to be simply not accurate in my large enterprise experience where you want to decouple the application from the container excepting for the specified JEE facilities.  If someone thinks otherwise I'm certainly interested to understand why.

Especially justifying the decision based on portability seems exactly backwards.  JBoss is going beyond the specification to provide a vendor-specific facility that in fact reduces portability.

Please consider re-thinking this decision moving forward.

Scott
                
> Log API dependencies should be included automatically in deployments
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AS7-1389
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-1389
>             Project: Application Server 7
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Logging
>    Affects Versions: 7.0.0.Final
>            Reporter: David Lloyd
>            Assignee: James Perkins
>             Fix For: 7.1.0.Final
>
>
> The following log APIs should be included by deployments by default:
> * {{org.slf4j}}
> * {{org.apache.commons.logging}}
> * {{org.log4j}}
> These dependencies should override the deployment's versions of these libraries unless explicitly excluded by {{jboss-deployment-structure.xml}}.

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