log4j 1.2rc1 now available
Ceki Gülcü <ceki <at> qos.ch>
2002-04-18 13:00:54 GMT
Hi everyone,
In addition to many performance improvements, bug fixes, and other
small enhancements, log4j 1.2 adds JMX support, Mapped Diagnostic
Contexts, JDBC logging, graphical log viewer (chainsaw), and buffered
IO capability. One important change is the replacement of the Category
class with Logger class and the Priority class with the Level class in
order to facilitate migration from the JDK 1.4 logging API to log4j.
Version 1.2 is the 22nd major public release of log4j. All changes
except the removal of deprecated methods are backward compatible such
that log4j 1.2 can be considered a drop in replacement for log4j
1.1.3. The only exception is the renaming of the CategoryFactory
class to LoggerFactory class such that subclasses of Category class to
be modified and recompiled. By the way, we strongly discourage casual
users from subclassing the Category or Logger classes.
The history file reads:
- Version 1.2
(rc1)
- The ANT build script was modified to use jar files specified in
the build.properties file instead of the CLASSPATH environment
variable. The build.properties file depends on local paths and is
supplied by the user. The build.properties.sample file is included
in the distribution. The build.sh and build.bat scripts have
been removed. This is the way many other jakarta projects build their
projects. The jar files in the dist/lib directory were also removed
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