netty/netty — Issue #64: Use java.util.logging or SLF4J
Author: trustin
Created: 2011-11-17 09:03:06+00:00
State: open
Labels: improvement

We don't need to support JBoss Logging anymore in Netty 4. It means we can simply using widely adopted logging framework and get rid of our thin logging layer. There are two candidates:

* `java.util.logging`
* SLF4J

SLF4J has much nicer API, but it's somewhat difficult to configure for a novice. `java.util.logging`'s API is pretty ugly, but it will let us continue being a zero-dependency library. What do you prefer and why? I'm leaning toward `java.util.logging` because of zero dependency is so attractive and we do not log very much.