Re: [FYI] Resin 3.0 - logging and JDK 1.4 dependency

Torsten Curdt wrote:
>>On Monday, September 16, 2002, at 10:32 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
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>>Resin 3.0 is going to require JDK 1.4, I'm afraid. Since the
>>stable/production version, Resin 3.1, is planned for Q1 2003, that
>>shouldn't be too much of a problem for most users.
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> Well, is this just because logging??

No. The most important addition for JDK 1.4 is really the additions to
java.lang.Throwable. But also the java.nio which will be important for
keepalives. logging is nice, but it wouldn't be reason enough just to
change for that.

The secondary issue is that the 1.3 JDKs were such a problem (mostly on
Linux), that encouraging people to move is a good thing.

> Scott, have you had a look into
> apache logkit? It's has an abstraction layer and works with jdk1.4
> logging as well as e.g. log4j. It's successfully used in several apache
> project.

If it were just logging, I'd stick with Resin's old log support. The
problem with Apache's log4j is that it's not standard, while
java.util.logging is standard. So there's no real value in using log4j.

With java.util.logging, I could write a "best practices" document that
showed how to use java.util.logging with a servlet-based application.
Since that would be completely standard, it would work in any environment.

-- Scott

>
> my 2 cents
> --
> Torsten
>
Received on Mon 16 Sep 2002 13:35:05 -0700