When developing Java applications, it is easy to get used to invoking logging on the provided logger via its log level-specific methods.

The following two code snippets show this for a class specifying its Log4j logger and for a class specifying its java.util.logging logger. Note that there are more characters in these examples ...

If you're a fan of Java logging, you already know that there are three main types, Log4j, Log4j2, and SLF4j. But what benefits each type offers?

Ceki Gülcü is well known in the world of Java logging. He founded Log4J and then worked on replacing Jakarta commons-logging with SLF4J. InfoQ spoke with Ceki about his new project, LOGBack ...