Spring with SLF4J

[Swapna]

I want to use SLF4J for logging instead of commons-logging. How do I configure?

[al0]

No way. Commons-logging is the only Spring hard dependency.
To be more precious you may use SLF4J in your own code, but you still need commons-logging for Spring itself.

[derek]

There is a way.

You could always update the Spring source and recompile.

With global search and replace this wouldn't be such a big deal.

[al0]

There is a way.

You could always update the Spring source and recompile.

With global search and replace this wouldn't be such a big deal.

Yes, if you will to do it with each new release.

[Alan Stewart]

Just use the SLF4J jcl104-over-slf4j jar as a drop-in replacement for the commons-logging jar. With this you can get all the benefits of SLF4J and still use the exact same commons-logging API - ie no changes in your code.

If you use Maven, the dependency is as follows:

<dependency>
	<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
	<artifactId>jcl104-over-slf4j</artifactId>
	<version>1.4.2</version>
</dependency>

Alan

[al0]

There is one problem - Spring relies on commons-logging 1.1, not 1.0.4,
so I'm not sure that suggested drop-in would suffice.

Regards,
Oleksandr

Just use the SLF4J jcl104-over-slf4j jar as a drop-in replacement for the commons-logging jar. With this you can get all the benefits of SLF4J and still use the exact same commons-logging API - ie no changes in your code.

If you use Maven, the dependency is as follows:

<dependency>
	<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
	<artifactId>jcl104-over-slf4j</artifactId>
	<version>1.4.2</version>
</dependency>

Alan