Re: servletcontext listener vs servlet with high priority on loading

From:
Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:51:44 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<35db14aa-dcbd-44ab-86eb-2b3695a58bf3@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com>
markspace wrote:

a wrote:

I build my own version of Log Util based on the log4j. The purpose is fo=

r

convenience. It involves a lot of static method and static variable.

 
I think you have just discovered that home built frameworks like this
are often not more convenient. Please try the existing configuration fil=

es.

+1

With log4j, the same-named logger (i.e., via the class or class name you pa=
ss to the constructor) is the same logger instance. It is better to name a=
 logger by the class that uses it, as documented in the log4j instructions.=
  This helps ops to maintain the program. I don't know whose convenience y=
ou're trying to serve, "a", but I will bet dollars to doughnuts it's not th=
e folks whose convenience you ought to serve, namely the production personn=
el.

Logging isn't for programmers, it's for ops.

I expect objects can be instantiated in ServletContextListener, but not =

any

static in a class. Is that true? Pls explain.

 
I don't understand.


I wonder if "a" means that you cannot instantiate a logger as a static vari=
able, which of course is nonsense. You most definitely can, and sometimes =
should, instantiate a logger as a static variable.

If "a" refers to objects in general, then it's even more nonsensical. It's=
 Java. Of course you can instantiate objects as static members.

Perhaps "a" ought to clarify his meaning. "a"?

Also, "a", I heartily recommend you read *and study* the documentation for =
log4j (or any other framework that you use).

--
Lew

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