Review request: 7006814 "sun.util.logging.PlatformLogger ability to override the output format"

[Alan Bateman]

Mandy Chung wrote:
> :
> Are you suggesting to have SimpleFormatter to support controling the 
> one-line format vs the current 2-line format?
Yes, that's what I was wondering about as it seems a bit strange that we 
can configure the platform logger to generate one-line output but not 
SimpleFormatter (at least not without creating a formatter and 
configuring ConsoleHandler.formatter). It sounds like 6381464 isn't 
really fixable out of concerns for existing log file parsers, in which 
case maybe it should be closed.

On the webrev, then the changes looks reasonable to me.  It doesn't look 
like getCurrentTime needs to cache the Date object. On the property it 
looks like you have to explicitly set it to "true" to be effective, ie: 
can't "java -Dsun.util.logging.oneLineFormat Foo".  Might be nicer to 
rename to something like useOneLineFormat and default it to true when 
the value is the empty string (just a suggestion).

-Alan.