Logging library (was RE: System.out.println())

[Kitching Simon <Si...@orange.ch>]

I thought I'd just insert a plug for an ultra-
cool logging library I downloaded recently.

log4j (http://sourceforge.net/projects/log4j) is
really nice. It has a clean API from the end user
perspective, and is *extremely* flexible in the
way it can be configured at run-time. 

And (as you may have guessed from the name),
it is (mostly) from IBM's alphaWorks team.

Using a proper logging library is definitely better
than just printing messages to a file (at least
that's how I interpret this question..)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	WThompson@gerbertechnology.com [SMTP:WThompson@gerbertechnology.com]
> Sent:	Friday, October 06, 2000 5:55 PM
> To:	tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject:	RE: System.out.println()
> 
> you have to declare a file type
> 
> 	File.... out = new File.....(....);
> 
> 	out.println(...);
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mauricio Santacruz [mailto:mauricio@latinsecure.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 10:58 AM
> To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: System.out.println()
> 
> 
> How to System.out.printl() write in file??????

Re: Logging library (was RE: System.out.println())

[kenneth topp <ca...@prodigy.net>]

On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Kitching Simon wrote:

> 
> I thought I'd just insert a plug for an ultra-
> cool logging library I downloaded recently.
> 
> log4j (http://sourceforge.net/projects/log4j) is
> really nice. It has a clean API from the end user
> perspective, and is *extremely* flexible in the
> way it can be configured at run-time. 
> 
> And (as you may have guessed from the name),
> it is (mostly) from IBM's alphaWorks team.
> 
> Using a proper logging library is definitely better
> than just printing messages to a file (at least
> that's how I interpret this question..)

IBM has another logging package on alphaworks too.  log4j is nice, but you
cannot cycle log files, which is a must (IMHO).  Sun is coming out with
their logging API (jsr #47), and I don't think that tomcat is recommending
standalone just yet, so there isn't any real need to integrate yet another
package into tomcat.

Just my opinion.

Kenneth Topp