[slf4j-user] Log4j bridge - deprecated functionality

[Ceki Gulcu]

As similar request has been made by Michael Rumpf in bug 95.

  http://bugzilla.slf4j.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95

The getInstance() methods were added recently in SVN. You can expect these 
methods to be part of the next release.

HTH,

M. Hansen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We have decided to use JDK1.4 logging and we have some legacy applications
> that uses log4j. Our idea is to use SLF4J to bridge calls to log4j to jdk1.4
> through SLF4J. However, we do not have the source code for some of our
> legacy applications and some use deprecated functionality from log4j. More
> precisely we have run into a problem where some code invokes
> Category.getInstance(java.lang.String). This method is deprecated in log4j
> but still part of the API (
> http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/apidocs/org/apache/log4j/Category.html).
> The log4j bridge does not include deprecated functionality. Why is this? If
> the bridge is targeted for use in legacy applications it is most likely the
> code will make use of an older log4j where the methods were not marked as
> deprecated.
> 
> Regards
> M. Hansen

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