Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-uima-user-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: (qmail 39392 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2010 00:38:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 4 Mar 2010 00:38:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 81599 invoked by uid 500); 4 Mar 2010 00:38:48 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-uima-user-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 81448 invoked by uid 500); 4 Mar 2010 00:38:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact uima-user-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: uima-user@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list uima-user@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 81440 invoked by uid 99); 4 Mar 2010 00:38:48 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:38:48 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of msa@schor.com designates 67.18.10.5 as permitted sender) Received: from [67.18.10.5] (HELO gateway04.websitewelcome.com) (67.18.10.5) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with SMTP; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:38:39 +0000 Received: (qmail 15873 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2010 00:40:51 -0000 Received: from gator74.hostgator.com (67.18.27.130) by gateway04.websitewelcome.com with SMTP; 4 Mar 2010 00:40:51 -0000 Received: from yktgi01e0-s5.watson.ibm.com ([129.34.20.19]:34560 helo=[9.2.35.72]) by gator74.hostgator.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nmz50-0003wg-U0 for uima-user@incubator.apache.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:38:18 -0600 Message-ID: <4B8F00FB.6020600@schor.com> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:38:19 -0500 From: Marshall Schor User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100216 Thunderbird/3.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: uima-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: why use UIMA logging facility? References: <4B8ED3F2.1030007@ogren.info> In-Reply-To: <4B8ED3F2.1030007@ogren.info> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - gator74.hostgator.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - incubator.apache.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - schor.com On 3/3/2010 4:26 PM, Philip Ogren wrote: > I am involved in a discussion about how to do logging in uima. We > were looking at section 1.2.2 in the tutorial for some motivation as > to why we would use the built-in UIMA logging rather than just using > e.g. log4j directly - but there doesn't seem to be any. Could someone > give us some intuition why it matters which logging library we use? > (I have my own suspicions - but that's all they are...) UIMA logging can be configured to use several loggers, including log4j. Using the UIMA logging framework would allow potential future users of your component to integrate it with their project, independent of how logging was being done, since they could configure UIMA to use different loggers. HTH. -Marshall > > Thanks, > Philip > >