----- Original Message ----- From: "Geir Magnusson Jr." <gei...@optonline.net> To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <comm...@jakarta.apache.org> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 11:58 AM Subject: Re: [logging] Need interface... VOTE

Great!

The problem is that you can't just implement the interface. You would also have to remove any static references to the Log object.

For example, this class

public class Foo {

private static Log log = LogFactory.getLog(Foo.class);

}

becomes:

public class Foo implements SetsLog {

// Logs now have to be assignable per instance, no longer static // need a reasonable default too private Log log = LogFactory.getLog(Foo.class);

public void SetLog(Log log) { this.log = log; }

}

Which I would -1.

And the method that implements that interface, and you would have to make all the Logs instance variables if they were static variables.

I assumed that this interface would make it possible to set Log objects on a per-instance basis. Would the setter method be called once on a particular instance, which would assign to a static variable? That doesn't make sense to me. It seems like a prerequisite of implementing that interface would be to change all Log objects to instance variables.

- Morgan