[slf4j-dev] Why no error(Throwable) on the Logger interface?

[Jukka Zitting]

Hi,

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Ceki Gulcu <ceki at qos.ch> wrote:
> Are you saying in the majority of SLF4J deployments the thread name is
> not available?

No, just that in most cases some essential piece of the puzzle (source
code, stack traces, or in this specific example thread names) is not
readily available for a variety of different reasons. For example,
I've seen lots of log4j configurations without thread names included
in the log output. Sure you can ask the configuration to be changed,
but that's not very optimal if you're trying to identify a problem
that occurs perhaps only once a month in a production environment.

In summary, you generally can't trust on having all the potential data
available to support the task of deciphering the meaning of a log
entry, which makes meaningful log messages all the more important.

BR,

Jukka Zitting