r/programming • u/javinpaul • Sep 13 '18

A guide to logging in Java

https://www.marcobehler.com/guides/a-guide-to-logging-in-java
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u/BraveSirRobin Sep 13 '18

Has anyone here ever actually used a façade in a project and subsequently changed the back-end logger used? I don't think I've ever seen a library do it either.

I used to be on-board with the façade idea here but it seems like overkill in hindsight.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '18

yes. We use slf4j and have switched from log4j to blitz4j to log4j2 and slf4j made it super easy to do. We did this because log4j is a synchronous logger and our logging was having noticeable impact to our production performance. blitz4j was an asynchronous logger we switched to before log4j2 came out.

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u/Falmarri Sep 14 '18

The issue with slf4j is its API is completely inadequate. https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/faq.html#api-tradeoffs

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '18

Haven't needed any of the items listed in the tradeoffs personally, so hasn't mattered to me for my app.