On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Romain Manni-Bucau
<rmannibu...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hmm SLF4J as backend? i'd have thought to the opposite but this way is
> weird.
>

That is supported too: SLF4J as the API and Log4j 2 as the back-end.

Gary

>
> about CL issue it is mainly the fact few containers isolate it correctly
> from the apps (on this point slf4j is better supported)
>
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> 2013/7/24 Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>
>
> > While still in Beta, there is also Log4j 2, which let's you optionally
> use
> > SLF4J as the back-end.
> >
> > Gary
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Phil Steitz <phil.ste...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On 7/24/13 12:56 AM, Mark Thomas wrote:
> > > > I'm working my way through the open DBCP bugs with a view to getting
> > the
> > > > DBCP code (and the POOL code as some changes may be required there)
> > into
> > > > a state where it is ready for the first v2 release.
> > > >
> > > > I've quickly reached DBCP-154 that requests that logging is added.
> This
> > > > is not a new request and goes back to DBCP-4 and possibly earlier.
> From
> > > > memory there are a number of open DBCP bugs that require some form of
> > > > logging. There are also lots of places where DBCP logs directly to
> > > > stdout or stderr.
> > > >
> > > > This quickly brings us to the point of having to decide which logging
> > > > framework to use. This is largely the same debate we had for POOL [1]
> > > > but with a few key differences:
> > > > - there are many more places where logging is required
> > > > - there are many more places where logging could be useful
> > > >
> > > > Because of the volume of logging, I don't believe the JMX approach
> used
> > > > for POOL is viable for DBCP.
> > > >
> > > > Therefore, I intend to go ahead and add a dependency on
> > Commons-Logging.
> > >
> > > First, many thanks for jumping back in!
> > >
> > > I have two basic questions:
> > >
> > > 1) Do we absolutely need logging itself or is there some other way
> > > we could satisfy the needs here?  IIRC, there are basically two
> > > things that "require" logging in DBCP: a) abandoned connections b)
> > > exceptions / warnings.  In a), we want users to be able to log the
> > > stack trace of the code that opened the connection.  Case b) splits
> > > into all kinds of different stuff.  This may be a little smelly, but
> > > I wonder if we could not shove what is really needed in normal
> > > operations into JMX properties (which would just hold information
> > > from recent messages) and support a debug mode where things get
> > > spewed as today to System.err or a configured LogWriter.
> > >
> > > 2) Are there any real reasons that commons-logging will not meet the
> > > need?  I have read the other messages on this thread and have not
> > > seen a concrete reason, other than "others like slf2j better."  Have
> > > we in fact definitively resolved the classloader-related issues that
> > > used to make commons-logging a bad choice?
> > >
> > > If the answer to 1) is we absolutely need logging and 2) comes down
> > > to a matter of taste, I am +1 on commons-logging because I agree
> > > with the dogfood argument and also do-ocracy ;)
> > >
> > > Phil
> > > >
> > > > Mark
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > [1] http://markmail.org/message/zuufedzkfx62v5eq
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