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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:33:58 -0400
From: Frank Baxter <fbaxter@voyager.net>
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To: java-logging-input@eng.sun.com
Subject: JSR47 Feedback

After reviewing the available logging kits, I've been in the process of converting our system from a proprietary logging API to use the log4j toolkit (http://www.log4j.org).  While I was pleased to see a logging implementation included in the JDK 1.4 plans, I was very disappointed to see that it was not log4j.  Clearly it is the most widely recognized and currently used implementation available today.

Apache, Enhydra, JBoss, Expresso, FreeHEP, and countless others, all selected log4j for a reason.  It is the only serious solution for a logging API.  On technical merit alone, clearly there is no comparison. I certainly hope that IBM's toolkit is not being selected for political reasons only.  I strongly urge you to reconsider the logging implementation for JDK 1.4.

Thank you for listening to the concerns of the development community.

Sincerely,

Frank Baxter

VP and CTO
Synthesys Technologies, Inc.