this is a WORKS FOR ME™ project. i created it to solve an issue i had with a single project. to use it for other projects some additions may be necessary. and as always: no guarantee, warranty, assurance or promises. it may burn down you house. everything is in you own responsibility, read the code, it's about 200 lines of java. no more.
this is a project that aims to replace log4j entirely with a log feature as you would expect. no data / code mix, no feature nobody uses. nothing special, only logging.
it means you fix (add) all the stuff, mainly with noop stubs that your fine
software requires. remove log4j* and add this library. fix exception like
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.getLogger()' until your project works.
things that i want to add but did not do so yet:
- log4j has a complex config infrastructure. i want to replace that with a single configfile with a fix name (if you cannot make it, change the code, it's included) with mainly two settings: logfile and loglevel
- loggs have to be written to files and files must be rotated, that is a feature logging must support, rotation and naming decision should be in code
- MDCs are a nice thing to transport information through foreign libraries that log but are missing context information
- a filtering by logger is sometimes usefull for debugging busy servers
- support for threading
features that will not make it into this project:
- colors
- complex config
- dependencies
- hotdeploy
- timezones
- xml
so no PRs about those please. feel free to add it for your own benefit.