Re: [equinox-dev] Commons logging madness

["Neil Bartlett" <njbartlett@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hal,

Jakarta Commons Logging (JCL) tries to be clever about classloading. In
the words of Spinal Tap "there is a fine line between clever and stupid".

JCL makes a number of old-fashioned assumptions about class loading in
order to dynamically discover a logging library to use. Heaven only knows
why this can't be done with static linking or runtime configuration.
Anyway those class loading assumptions are hairy in application servers
and plain wrong in OSGi. Its use should be heavily discouraged.

SLF4J does provide a statically linked drop-in replacement for JCL, but
frankly it would be much nicer if Spring factored out its dependency on
the JCL API.

- Neil

PS: if I sound bitter, I am. I lost days to debugging these problems. I
shudder to think of the total worldwide productivity that has been
destroyed by JCL.



> Cross posting this on the equinox dev and Spring/OSGi lists.
>
> I'm desperately trying to get logging to work in the Spring/OSGi testing
> environment as I simply have no hair left - having pulled it out from
> frustration.  Those who know me will understand that this is a lot of
> hair.
>
> So, in desperation, I finally turned on the commons logging diagnostic
> information so I can see something - anything - that will tell me what the
> heck is going on.  Attached is the trace running under Equinox 3.2.1 and
> from running under Knopflerfish 2.0.1.
>
> The same loaded bundle configuration is used for both runs.  In the KF
> case,
> the log4J implementation is discovered and used as expected.  In the
> Equinox
> case, the Log4J configuration fails because of  which results in commons
> logging using the JDK logging implementation.
>
> The problem appears to be multiple versions of
> org.apache.commons.logging.Log which causes ­ as one might expect ­ a
> class
> mismatch problem.
>
> In both the KF and Equinox case, I have set the OSGi System property
> ³org.osgi.framework.bootdelegation² to
> ³javax.*,org.w3c.*,sun.*,org.xml.*,com.sun.*².  So, I¹m not sure what¹s
> happening.  I¹m stumped as to what¹s going on.
>
> Below are the relevant sections of trace output in the Equinox case
> (there¹s
> a lot of output, sorry).
>
> Any help would be appreciated in tracking this down...
>
>
> [LogFactoryImpl@15479518 from
> org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader@4999881]
> [WARNING]
> the context classloader is not part of a parent-child relationship with
> the
> classloader that loaded LogFactoryImpl.
> [LogFactoryImpl@15479518 from
> org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader@4999881] Trying
> to
> load 'org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger' from classloader
> org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.ContextFinder@667901
> [LogFactoryImpl@15479518 from
> org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader@4999881] Class
> 'org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger' was found at
> 'jar:file:/Users/hhildebrand/.m2/repository/org/springframework/osgi/commons
> -logging.osgi/1.1-SNAPSHOT/commons-logging.osgi-1.1-SNAPSHOT.jar!/org/apache
> /commons/logging/impl/Log4JLogger.class'
> [LogFactoryImpl@15479518 from
> org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader@4999881] The log
> adapter 'org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger' is missing
> dependencies when loaded via classloader
> org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.ContextFinder@667901:
> org/apache/log4j/Category
> [LogFactoryImpl@15479518 from
> org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader@4999881]
> Attempting
> to instantiate 'org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Jdk14Logger'
> [LogFactoryImpl@15479518 from
> org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader@4999881]
> [WARNING]
> the context classloader is not part of a parent-child relationship with
> the
> classloader that loaded LogFactoryImpl.
> [LogFactoryImpl@15479518 from
> org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader@4999881] Trying
> to
> load 'org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Jdk14Logger' from classloader
> org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.ContextFinder@667901
> [LogFactoryImpl@15479518 from
> org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader@4999881] Class
> 'org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Jdk14Logger' was found at
> 'jar:file:/Users/hhildebrand/.m2/repository/org/springframework/osgi/commons
> -logging.osgi/1.1-SNAPSHOT/commons-logging.osgi-1.1-SNAPSHOT.jar!/org/apache
> /commons/logging/impl/Jdk14Logger.class'
> [LogFactoryImpl@15479518 from
> org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader@4999881] Class
> 'org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Jdk14Logger' was found in classloader
> org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.ContextFinder@667901. It is
> bound
> to a Log interface which is not the one loaded from classloader
> org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader@4999881
> [LogFactoryImpl@15479518 from
> org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader@4999881] Warning:
> bad log hierarchy. You have more than one version of
> 'org.apache.commons.logging.Log' visible.
> [LogFactoryImpl@15479518 from
> org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader@4999881] Trying
> to
> load 'org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Jdk14Logger' from classloader
> org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.IsolatedClassLoader@14994372
> [LogFactoryImpl@15479518 from
> org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader@4999881] Class
> 'org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Jdk14Logger' was found at
> 'jar:file:/Users/hhildebrand/.m2/repository/org/springframework/osgi/commons
> -logging.osgi/1.1-SNAPSHOT/commons-logging.osgi-1.1-SNAPSHOT.jar!/org/apache
> /commons/logging/impl/Jdk14Logger.class'
> [LogFactoryImpl@15479518 from
> org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader@4999881] Class
> 'org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Jdk14Logger' was found in classloader
> org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.IsolatedClassLoader@14994372. It is bound
> to a Log interface which is not the one loaded from classloader
> org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader@4999881
> [LogFactoryImpl@15479518 from
> org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader@4999881] Warning:
> bad log hierarchy. You have more than one version of
> 'org.apache.commons.logging.Log' visible.
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