It seems to be mainly intended for use internally in the JDK, though. From the JEP[1]: "It is not a goal to define a general-purpose interface for logging. The

It seems to be mainly intended for use internally in the JDK, though. From the JEP[1]: "It is not a goal to define a general-purpose interface for logging. The service interface contains only the minimal set of methods that the JDK needs for its own usage." And from the motivation section: "The proposed service enables applications to configure the JDK to use the same logging framework as the application: It would only need to provide an implementation of the service that returns platform loggers that wrap the loggers of the preferred logging framework." [1] https://openjdk.org/jeps/264 https://openjdk.org/jeps/264