Go for it Chris! I trust you have a better grasp of this than I do.

Thanks,
Alex

On 6/21/07, Chris Custine <chris.custine@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> While I was looking into the server-main logging issue (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRSERVER-979
> ), I came to the conclusion that our logging config in the poms needs some
> cleanup so I want to make the following proposal.
>
> 1). Add slf4j default dependencies to parent pom.xml for each project such
> as daemon, shared, apacheds).  There is a lot of duplication of logging
> setup in every subproject, so this would configure the default as slf4j-api
> for compile scope and either slf4j-simple or slf4j-nlog4j for test scope
> (requires concrete slf4j impl for JUnit tests).  This would mean that normal
> subprojects don't need additional dependencies in their pom and will use the
> default which works for almost all 35-40 subprojects except those that
> require actual runtime packaging.  For the remaining projects that require
> runtime dependencies such as server-installers, server-main, and the
> plugins, we just add a concrete slf4j implementation like nlog4j to the
> subproject pom and it will package up all the dependencies.  This config
> will also help fix https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRSERVER-979 and
> it limits transitive dependencies in our maven artifacts so that users can
> use their own impls.
>
> 2). Replace commons-logging with jcl104-over-slf4j which is a clone of
> commons-logging that will just defer to slf4j.  Commons-logging is required
> at runtime by spring and possibly some other dependencies but it has some
> peculiar problems that aren't obvious.  If anyone wants more info on this I
> can go on for days about it...
>
> I was also thinking we could provide maven profiles for specifying the
> inclusion of different log impls in server-main since this has come up a few
> times.  The installers will package nlog4j as a default, and the user can
> change them out if required.
>
> I would also like to go ahead and update the apacheds, shared, and daemon
> parent poms to *-parent since it also requires modifying all of the poms in
> each subproject ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRSERVER-977) as
> long as no one objects.  I have all of these changes running locally and
> have tested them out quite a bit today.
>
> Sorry this is a little lengthy.  Does anyone have any opinions or ideas?
>
> Chris
>