3 ms·

Where do these adapters come from?

• blibble 5y ago
  typically other logging projects eg. slf4j has adapters for logback/log4j/java.util.logging/commons-logging/... you can also implement it yourself, I've done it several times in both directions, both: - BigCoLogger -> OpenSourceLogger - OpenSourceLogger -> BigCoLogger they take at most a day to write, as the Logger and its factory are two well-specified small interfaces
  • ericb 5y ago
    Right, so your solution to avoid relying on an open source library for your company's success is to use an open source adapter to rely on another open source library. It seems to the unenlightened like you're still depending on an open source library for your success, you've just changed which one? Shuffling the deck chairs around is one solution, I suppose. If all the deck chair makers get fed up, what then?
    • blibble 5y ago
      did you read my comment or are you being deliberately obtuse? we have our own logging libraries, but other pieces of software we integrate with depend on the log4j interface so we have an adapter (that we wrote) that swaps out the log4j implementation for ours if all the open source logging disappeared tomorrow we'd be absolutely fine and everyone else would write a trivial adapter for Oracle's java.util.logging and they'd be absolutely fine too