Re: Re: Commons Logging Issues

Pat made the switch in all the projects, the reasons were (they might  
sound rude, but they were the reasons). Previously many used the Logger  
in oscore, which wrapped around log4j (or anything else)

1) flexibility
2) more 'modern'

On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 04:21 AM, Chris Miller wrote:

> Which components use commons logging besides OSCache? I don't think  
> there
> was any particular reason why it was chosen for OSCache over log4j.  
> Fabian
> Crabus added it originally to the 1.7.x codebase (since there was no  
> real
> logging support in OSCache previously), and I merged a lot of his code  
> into
> some of mine to form the base for OSCache 2.0.
>
> Having said that, I don't have a problem switching OSCache over to  
> log4j
> (especially after having read that article - thanks for the link!)  
> unless
> anyone has strong objections? I'll get this done before 2.0 final  
> (which I
> was hoping would be this weekend however this depends a bit on WEB-15).
>
>
> "Scott Farquhar" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> We are having problems deploying JIRA in the latest versions of Tomcat
>> due to commons logging hell.  It seems that Tomcat packages
>> commons-logging in servlet/lib/ which clashes if you package your own
>> version.
>>
>> Of course I need to package my own version of commons-logging because  
>> if
>> I deploy on any other server I need it.
>>
>> Here is a good article about it:
>>
>>    http://www.qos.ch/logging/thinkAgain.html
>>
>> Our specific problem is here:
>>
>>    http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tomcat-dev&m=103481398706987&w=2
>>
>> Now, my question is - do we actually benefit from using  
>> commons-logging
>> instead of log4j?  What were the reasons for it?  Are they still  
>> valid?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Scott
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