The future of logging?

[moschen]

Hi, i am at the beginning of a project and I am trying to figure out the best way for logging. I started with log4j, because it is allready shiped with jboss. But then I got a little bit confused, because i downloaded the newest verison of log4j and found the following sentence in the api-docs for the class Category:

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This class has been deprecated and replaced by the Logger subclass. It will be kept around to preserve backward compatibility until mid 2003
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Hmmm, now that i read this, i thought about using the logging-api provided by the jdk 1.4 to prevent me from running into problems in the future, but when i am trying to add my own logging handlers i allways get a classNotFound exception.

Well, maybe someone could give me a hint about the best way to implement logging.

Best regards,
lordi

[adrian.brock]

Hehe,

Category is log4j <= 1.2
Logger is log4j >= 1.2

log4j is changing the names to be more like
the java 1.4 logging

The java 1.4 logging only works with java 1.4+
which means in future it will always be there, but
many people won't be in the future for a while. :-)

log4j is more mature, has better functionality, runs
on java 1.1 and is open source.

Regards,
Adrian