Dear Java grailkeepers,
I just checked out the public beta of J2SDK 1.4 that is available
from
the Java Developer Connection. In my opinion 1.4 is a great step
forward
in many areas (the I/O classes are the most important example), but I
also feel that the proposed logging facilities leave much to be
desired.
In particular, they seem inferior to the popular log4j package which
is
has been available for a couple of years now, it is free software, it
has proven to be well designed and well implemented, and it is
already
used by many Java developers all over the world (including me) in
many
projects with many different needs. Is it really necessary to come up
with a new API and a new implementation?
Thanks for your consideration, and thanks for your work. Java
rocks!
Arndt Schoenewald <arndt@jdc72344i728.mc.schoenewald.de>,
Software Developer