Re: FYI: java.util.logging

[Sascha Brawer]

Mark Wielaard <address@hidden> wrote on Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:30:55 +0100:

>In the past you said that you thought that java.util.logging is still
>alpha quality code which is one of the reasons it is not yet included
>into libgcj. How do you feel about the code quality now?

The package now should be quite usable, IMHO. It behaves very similar to
the Sun implementation, with some documented exceptions (for example, the
Classpath implementation escapes non-ASCII characters in XML log files,
while Sun J2SE 1.4 apparently does not, which can cause XML files to be
ill-formed).

Remaining problem areas:

1. serialization: should be compatible with Sun, but I haven't verified
this yet
2. localization: Classpath currently does not emit localized log records
3. Javadoc is still incomplete
4. java.util.logging.FileHandler does not switch over to a new log file
   when the maximum size is reached

I'll fix these soon. Apart from these, I think the code should now be
ready for general use.

-- Sascha