Delivered-To: cgu@qos.ch
From: Julien Dubois <jdubois@contenteurope.com>
To: "'java-logging-input@eng.sun.com'" <java-logging-input@eng.sun.com>
Cc: "'cgu@qos.ch'" <cgu@qos.ch>
Subject: Why reinvent the wheel? It is already round, you know.
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:26:11 +0200
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Dear sir,

Please do consider using Log4J as the standard Java logging package.

- It has been around for several years, and is certainly more mature than the package you are trying to produce.
- Doing a new logging package is nonsense : why reinvent the wheel? Does your manager have pointy hair?
- Log4J is already widely used by companies around the globe.
- Log4J is a lot more powerful than what you intend to make. In my current projects, there are two particular issues that log4j resolves, and that your software doesn't :

        - Configuration via XML (and not just with a Property file)
        - Sending of messages over JMS

Julien Dubois.