Delivered-To: cgu@qos.ch
From: "William Jaynes" <jaynes@umich.edu>
To: <java-logging-input@eng.sun.com>
Cc: "Ceki Gülcüxj/A==" <cgu@qos.ch>
Subject: JSR47 vs. log4j
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:37:12 -0400
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To whom it may concern,

I urge the JSR group to consider adopting the log4j API rather than the
JSR47 proposal.

Log4j has been developed over a period of years by a large number of
experienced developers who use it themselves. It is a product of the
best practices of the opensource tradition, forged in the fire of public
scrutiny, public debate, public development, public contributions, and
mass public testing. The quality and thoroughness that comes from such a
process can not be approached by any committee, no matter how brilliant
or experienced the committee members may be.

I believe that Sun should defer to Log4j, for the same good reasons that
it deferred to Tomcat.

Respectfully,

William Jaynes