JEP 264: Platform Logging API and Service

[Peter Levart]

On 09/18/2015 06:17 PM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> New JEP Candidate: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/264
>
> - Mark

Hi,

What is the purpose of exposing a factory for loggers in the generally 
exported package (java.lang) and making it standard Java API as opposed 
to keeping it internal API as it is now 
(sun.util.logging.PlatformLogger)? Is this going to become an official 
front-end for JDK-internal and applications use, available in the 
platform itself?

Otherwise I think it's good to add support for interfacing other 
backends (besides JDK14 Logging and stderr) to platform logger. If one 
wants to interface some other backend to platform logger now, it's 
actually doable, but only via the intermediate JDK14 Logging API, like this:

PlatformLogger -> j.u.l.Logger -> jul-to-slf4j -> slf4j-WHATEVER-BACKEND

Adding support to skip JDK14 Logging would simplify configuration and 
make it more lightweight.

Regards, Peter