Re: How should I provide access to my logger?
Giovanni Azua wrote:
Now logging is the classic use-case for APO [sic] (Aspect Oriented Programming)
I'm less enamored of the idea of AOP than some.
where you don't touch the java [sic] source code to add non functional concerns
but use Aspects. Google for "AspectJ and Logging" and you will find many
articles and examples related to this.
The trouble with AspectJ (and presumably other such) is that it rewrites the
class file for you. I know of one major production system that ran into
troubles with bugs in how AspectJ did bytecode rewriting.
I'm also somewhat dubious of how an aspect can capture all the right
information to log. With inline logging code, you have a context from which
you can cherry-pick what needs to be logged.
OTOH, I have yet to be in a project where they architected the logging aspect
as carefully (?) as they did the core code. Perhaps AspectJ is a good idea
compared to how people actually use logging, as opposed to how they should.
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