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Re: [orbit-dev] Slf4j into Orbit 
Hi,
I've been using SLF4J for Buckminster. We encountered a problem with it in that it introduces a circular dependency on package level.
SLF4J exports an API package and imports an SPI. An implementor must import the API and export the SPI. The circular dependency is a fact and this cannot be used in Eclipse 3.3.1.1
In order to work around this, I created a new bundle called org.slf4j.extendable. It exports the API but it implements the SPI by itself. The implementation is an abstraction that expects an implementor to extend the extension point 'org.slf4j.impl' It bundles only the API part of the SLF4J and only as a binary so no alterations were made on existing code.
I'd be happy to submit this to Orbit (doing so was in the back of my mind when I created this bundle). 

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren
t assumes that another package implements (and imports) an spi package that it then exports. It imports 
Simon Kaegi wrote:

SLF4J is quite an interesting library in that it provides a relatively OSGi
friendly logging facade. I've already gone through the initial CQ round
here when I was experimenting with an updated OSGi logging story.
I didn't move this into Orbit simple because I haven't had time to really
make use of it. The approved version was from about a year ago so there
maybe value in doing an update.

As an aside you mention Jetty 6 -- we just got approval for Jetty 6.1.7 and
Servlet 2.5.
We also have signoff to update the exisiting Jetty  to 5.1.14.
These will be coming soon to Orbit.

I believe Jetty 6.1.7 has dropped the SLF4J dependency so barring any
unforseen problems I'm not planning on adding SLF4J to Orbit for now.
Feel free to go ahead yourself.

-Simon

orbit-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 01/24/2008 10:21:52 AM:


It doesn't hurt to try if you need it, so +1

Cheers,

---
Chris Aniszczyk | IBM Lotus | Eclipse Committer | http://mea-bloga.
blogspot.com | +1.860.839.2465




From:

"Oberhuber, Martin" <Martin.Oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

To:

"Orbit Developer discussion" <orbit-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Date:

01/24/2008 07:22 AM

Subject:

[orbit-dev] Slf4j into Orbit





Hi all,

has anybody considered getting Slf4j into Orbit yet?

It looks like Slf4j ("Simple Logging Facade for Java") is a prerequisite
for lots of other libraries, including Jackrabbit which I'm considering
for WebDAV support, and Jetty6 which the Platform or Equinox might be
interested in at some point.
http://www.slf4j.org/index.html

http://jackrabbit.apache.org/doc/components/webdav.html

They have a specific license which they claim to be identical to the MIT
license and deemed to be compatible with virtually all types of
licenses:
http://www.slf4j.org/license.html

So there might be a good chance to get it approved for Eclipse.

I don't think I need this immediately, but given that the Ganymede
Cutoff date is Jan.31 I was wondering whether it might be a good idea to
get this on the plate. What do you folks think?

Cheers,
--
Martin Oberhuber, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Wind River
Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm
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