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From: "Balaji Kithiganahalli" <balaji_92@hotmail.com>
To: java-logging-input@eng.sun.com
Cc: cgu@qos.ch
Subject: Log4J as standard logging mechanism
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 09:27:53 -0400
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Hi


At the outset I would like to say that this is a personal request and not
one from the company I work for. I don't represent the company at all in
this matter nor the company shares this view.


Sun seems to behave more and more like Microsoft by putting in more and more functionality in the java core programming language. On the whole this may help but most of the times this involves reinventing the wheel.
Sun has been consistent in criticizing Microsoft along with a host of others on the integration that they keep doing with their Windows OS starting with browsers and now with media players and personal firewalls in the upcoming version of Windows XP... One consequence of this integration is that other third party software companies often find themselves out of business - like Netscape for instance and a host of other small ones.
I would like Sun to stop reinventing the wheel and instead integrate the
logging API from log4j into jdk 1.4 that will make older software easier to integrate and show Sun's commitment to Open Source and differentiate Sun from Microsoft.

I also believe there are some fundamental flaws in the logging mechanism currently shipped with JDK 1.4. I believe that these are well summarised in the document
 http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/docs/critique.html

In particular, multiple debugging levels (FINE, FINER, FINEST) are very
difficult to separate in real terms.

Additionally, having looked through the source code of both Log4J and the
associated JSR 47 specification, I believe that more work and test hours
have gone into the Log4J rather than JSR specifications.

As such, I believe that you should consider adopting the de-facto standard of Log4J as the logging utility in Java, rather than settle for second best.



regards
Balaji K Kithiganahalli
Balaji_92@hotmail.com

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