Poorly written, poorly edited, and not hepful

I really *wanted* this book to be an excellent logging book, because I would benefit by such a book. More than that, I would like to be able to (figuratively) throw a good logging book at developers needing one. While possessed of the necessary physical characteristics to do some damage when thrown, the low quality of the content of this book makes it unsuitable for chucking at developers needing logging guidance.

The prose is difficult to follow, the examples not-quite-lucid, the editing noticeably poor. The advice and analysis may not have ever made a lot of sense, but certainly by today's logging standards is off-base. (Treatment of Commons Logging is barely there, despite it being a prevalent logging framework API binding layer. Treatment of alternatives to Log4J addressing some of its classloader complexity is nonexistent. Logging considerations in application containers is absent.)

As much as I despise the pay-for-documentation model of monetizing open source, I have no alternative but to recommend that persons looking for a logging book purchase the log4j PDF, which is more comprehensive, more useful, and better edited than this unhelpful little volume. The log4j PDF largely treats no topics other than log4j, but it treats log4j very effectively. The book reviewed here attempts and fails to treat a broader range of topics.

Other Reviews

• Poorly written, poorly edited, and not hepful
• Good book on Logging
• Its been very helpful
• Good overview, but not exhaustive.