[logback-user] varargs

[david_fire4 at hotmail.com]

Convinced, but... ;)
This is probably not the right list for this discussion (btw: what is the 
relationship between slf4j and logback?), but can't there be an slf4j 
version for Java 5 and one for 1.4?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sebastien Pennec" <sebastien at qos.ch>
To: "logback users list" <logback-user at qos.ch>
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 10:57
Subject: Re: [logback-user] varargs

> Hello,
>
> Well, I guess that Ceki, the main author of SLF4J would answer this with 
> more inside knowledge of SLF4J...
>
> But my guess would be that SLF4J will stay JKD 1.4 compatible for some 
> more time... maybe a year, and probably more...
>
> Quite a lot of active development still use JDK 1.4, and it's not the 
> point of SLF4J to push toward JDK 1.5, but rather to be a simple and 
> widely compatible facade that lets user choose freely their logging 
> framework.
> As long as many developments use JKD 1.4 and some major logging framework 
> also use this version of the JDK, I guess SLF4J will not break JDK 1.4 
> compatibility.
>
> Convinced? :)
>
> Sébastien
>
> david_fire4 at hotmail.com a écrit :
>> Hello Sébastien,
>> Good answer... ;)
>> Any chance of seeing an slf4j interface with varargs in the near future?
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Sebastien Pennec" <sebastien at qos.ch>
>> To: "logback users list" <logback-user at qos.ch>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 10:02
>> Subject: Re: [logback-user] varargs
>>
>>> Hello Zohar,
>>>
>>> Thanks for using logback! :)
>>>
>>> Logback classic natively implements the SLF4J API[1] so that one can 
>>> readily switch
>>> back and forth between logback and other logging systems.
>>> Actually, ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger directly extends 
>>> org.slf4j.Logger.
>>>
>>> Since SLF4J is JDK 1.4 compatible, it cannot use any JDK 1.5 goodies, 
>>> varargs
>>> included. Therefore, the part of logback that directly implements SLF4J 
>>> is bound to
>>> the same constraint.
>>>
>>> Hope this answers your question,
>>>
>>> Sébastien
>>>
>>> Links:
>>> [1]: http://www.slf4j.org
>>>
>>> david_fire4 at hotmail.com wrote :
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I'm new to LogBack and I was wondering why log methods do not have a 
>>>> varargs version, so that one does not need to construct an array of 
>>>> parameter objects.
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Zohar.
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>>>
>>> -- 
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>>>
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> Sébastien Pennec
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