Why use Commons Logging?

Hi All..

I was reviewing our logging in the WS projects and was
wondering why we 
use commons logging, when we actually use Log4J almost
always 
underneath? Would like to know if someone has a good answer
to this 
question... also some ASF projects have moved to SLF4J.. any
thoughts on 
this?.. or is direct use of plain-old-log4j better?

thanks
asankha

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+1 for just using Log4J and being done with it.

Sanjiva.

Asankha C. Perera wrote:
> Hi All..
> 
> I was reviewing our logging in the WS projects and was
wondering why we 
> use commons logging, when we actually use Log4J almost
always 
> underneath? Would like to know if someone has a good
answer to this 
> question... also some ASF projects have moved to
SLF4J.. any thoughts on 
> this?.. or is direct use of plain-old-log4j better?
> 
> thanks
> asankha
> 
>
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Founder & Director; Lanka Software Foundation; http://www.opensource.lk/
Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://www.wso2.com/
Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/
Visiting Lecturer; University of Moratuwa; http://www.cse.mrt.ac.lk/

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I was waiting for someone else to jump in, but
commons-logging has
caused more troubles for us (Macromedia/Adobe) in our server
products
(particularly because Axis 1.x uses it) that I can
describe.

It was a very good idea to try and solve a very tough
problem, but it
turns out that you might as well pick a light weight logging
API and
just go with it.

--
Tom Jordahl
Adobe

-----Original Message-----
From: Sanjiva Weerawarana [mailto:sanjivaopensource.lk] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 1:20 AM
To: generalws.apache.org
Subject: Re: Why use Commons Logging?

+1 for just using Log4J and being done with it.

Sanjiva.

Asankha C. Perera wrote:
> Hi All..
> 
> I was reviewing our logging in the WS projects and was
wondering why
we 
> use commons logging, when we actually use Log4J almost
always 
> underneath? Would like to know if someone has a good
answer to this 
> question... also some ASF projects have moved to
SLF4J.. any thoughts
on 
> this?.. or is direct use of plain-old-log4j better?
> 
> thanks
> asankha
> 
>
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-- 
Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D.
Founder & Director; Lanka Software Foundation; http://www.opensource.lk/
Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://www.wso2.com/
Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/
Visiting Lecturer; University of Moratuwa; http://www.cse.mrt.ac.lk/

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