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The "Logging/FrequentlyAskedQuestions" page has been changed by BenediktRitter: http://wiki.apache.org/commons/Logging/FrequentlyAskedQuestions?action=diff&rev1=30&rev2=31 Comment: [LOGGING-149] - Add documentation on how to use commons logging in OSGi environments When providing an implementation of the org.apache.commons.logging.Log interface, the implementation must define a constructor that takes a java.lang.String as an argument. Otherwise you get an "org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: User-specified log class '...' cannot be found or is not useable." + == How can I use commons-logging in an OSGi environment? == + + Commons-logging was not designed with OSGi in mind. This is why it is difficult to get commons-logging working in OSGi environments: + * LogFactory loads Log implementations by name (see [[http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html#forName(java.lang.String)| Class.forName(String)]]). This is usually not possible in OSGi since every bundle classloader can only see the classes a bundle defines imports for. + * The bundle class loader that loads the commons-logging bundle will not have access to user provided commons-logging.properties files. + * commons-logging-api.jar contains classes that are also included in commons-logging.jar. This is contrary to traditional OSGi application architectures where one bundle defines an API and other bundles provide implementations for that API. + + There alternatives to using commons-logging directly in OSGi are: + * Rebundled versions that contain proper OSGi meta data are available from [[http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/felix/trunk/commons/commons-logging/pom.xml|Apache Felix]], [[http://ebr.springsource.com/repository/app/bundle/version/detail?name=com.springsource.org.apache.commons.logging&version=1.1.1&searchType=bundlesByName&searchQuery=logging|SpringSource]] and [[http://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/downloads/|Eclipse Orbit]]. + * Using [[http://team.ops4j.org/wiki/display/paxlogging/Pax+Logging|Pax logging]]. + + Further information about this topic is available in the archives of the [[http://markmail.org/message/277c5mrpdpcfj4wr|commons dev ML]] and the [[http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40felix.apache.org/msg28887.html|felix dev ML]] and in [[https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOGGING-124|Jira]]. + ---- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
