[logback-user] How to log FROM an appender?

[Steve Cohen]

On 11/12/2011 04:14 PM, Steve Cohen wrote:
> We have a custom appender that may itself need to issue logging
> statements. But placing a logger in such a class causes various
> exceptions on initialization and loading. So we are resorting to
> System.out.println for lack of a better solution.
>
> I suppose there must be a better way.
> What would that be?
>
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A technique that seems to work is to NOT declare a logger in the 
Appender class that you want to use one from, but instead create a 
static logger instance somewhere that is accessible through static 
methods.  That way the logger does not need to be created at the time of 
appender instantiation.