yes, you are of course right, but reading the ticket title again "describe how to shut off *all* stdout logging". That means that we don't have a way to shut it off completely. We should have one log level for that. Not that I like j.u.l. but they have it:

    /**
     * OFF is a special level that can be used to turn off logging.
     * This level is initialized to <CODE>Integer.MAX_VALUE</CODE>.
     */
    public static final Level OFF = new Level("OFF",Integer.MAX_VALUE, defaultBundle);