On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Torsten Curdt <tcu...@apache.org> wrote: > > For me that's exactly the other way around - most of the time I don't > need the static access. >
But, if you use static, you can access the log both ways. > > > (log objects aren't serializable for instance) > > How is that a problem? > In Wicket, fields of your pages/components are serialized. This is just an example. What about entity classes? They're usually serializable too. Having a field that's a Log object would break their serialization. What I'm saying is that there are lots of cases where using an instance variable doesn't work. > > and it's inefficient. > > http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PrematureOptimization > Trust me, I'm speaking from experience. We've seen in our application where switching from instance to static logs can save quite a bit of time. It's not a premature optimization. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org