[slf4j-dev] Re: Factory methods

[Ceki Gülcü]

At 09:35 PM 8/10/2005, Curt Arnold wrote:

>Without a mechanism to get at the LoggerFactory instance, there is no
>mechanism to interrogate the factory for capabilities.  So what I was
>suggesting is that there are static methods on some class to get a
>(likely singleton) instance of a factory implementation that can be
>used to get instances of Logger.  You could still have the short-cut
>methods to go directly from the static method to get an instance of
>Logger, but having the intermediate factory instance is beneficial.

If I understand correctly, you are suggesting the addition of a
new method. For example,

package org.slf4j;

public LoggerFactory {
   // keep existing methods

   // new method:
   static public ILoggerFactory getILoggerFactory() {
     ....
   }

}

Correct?

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