History of java logging frameworks

In the beginning there was java.utils.logging. And it was included in the JDK since 1.4 And it was good. But then came large java applications And coders realized, that synchronous logging is bad. So (as always) someone wrote a better logging library. And thus Apache Log4j was born. And it was good. But then (as always) someone else wrote yet another logging library. And thus logback was born. And there was chaos. But then the “simple logging facade for java” (SLF4J) was invented with the intent to unite all logging frameworks. And it was very very good. But (as always) it was just again yet another logging framework (or to be exact a facade for several frameworks) And there was even more chaos. Then Apache upgraded its logging framework Log4j to version 2.0 which providedes “significant improvements over its predecessor” (according to its own doc). Amongst other improvements it provides a log4j-to-slf4j adapter, ie. an adapter for a facade of several logging frameworks. And now every coder knows which log method to import. :-) (Or was it LogManager or LogFactory or Logger ?????

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