Delivered-To: cgu@qos.ch
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 22:03:28 +0200
From: Arndt Schoenewald <arndt@jdc72344i728.mc.schoenewald.de>
To: java-logging-input@eng.sun.com
Subject: Feedback: Java Logging in J2SDK 1.4 preview
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Dear Java grailkeepers,

I just checked out the public beta of J2SDK 1.4 that is available from
the Java Developer Connection. In my opinion 1.4 is a great step forward
in many areas (the I/O classes are the most important example), but I
also feel that the proposed logging facilities leave much to be desired.
In particular, they seem inferior to the popular log4j package which is
part of the Apache Jakarta project (http://jakarta.apache.org/). Log4j
has been available for a couple of years now, it is free software, it
has proven to be well designed and well implemented, and it is already
used by many Java developers all over the world (including me) in many
projects with many different needs. Is it really necessary to come up
with a new API and a new implementation?

Thanks for your consideration, and thanks for your work. Java rocks!

Arndt Schoenewald <arndt@jdc72344i728.mc.schoenewald.de>,
Software Developer