Delivered-To: cgu@qos.ch
From: Carlos Perez <CarlosP@adaptivetrade.com>
To: "'cgu@qos.ch'" <cgu@qos.ch>
Subject: FW: JSR47 API
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:18:57 -0400
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>  -----Original Message-----
> From:         Carlos Perez 
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 10:18 AM
> To:   'community-process@sun.com'
> Subject:      JSR47 API
>
> Gentlemen,
>
> I am writing to use about the JSR47 API (i.e. Logging API).  Both the
> IBM's logging toolkit for Java and Log4J were produced by IBM and
> published in the alphaworks web site at the almost the same time.  During
> that time, Log4J received a much larger share of interest and support than
> the logging toolkit.  This does imply that Log4J is a supperior api for
> many reasons.
>
> I feel dissappointed that the JCP will endorse a clearly inferior api over
> an api that has shown its merits in the real world.  It has always been
> clear since the alphaworks days that the 2 proponents of the logging API's
> have been in competition.  Though, I believe it is unfair to cast judgment
> on which API to be standard based on pure political maneuvering skill.
> The choice should be determined by what is actually used in the field.
> Aside from possibly IBM's Websphere, I do not know of any other users of
> the IBM logging toolkit. 
>
> This should tell you something, don't force down the developer's throats
> an inferior api!
>
> Regards,
>
> Carlos E. Perez
>
>