Re: FYI: java.util.logging

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 22:08, Sascha Brawer wrote:
> 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.

Great! Non of these issues seem to be real show stoppers for early
adopters. I will merge in the package into libgcj then. That will give
you some more testers.

Cheers,

Mark