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Logging in Java with the JDK 1.4 Logging API and Apache log4j Review by Little Achiever
Good overview, but not exhaustive.
As a developer looking for a more detailed reference/guide to technical usage and programming practices, this book falls short. My focus was log4j, and I found that most of the information is freely available from apache. No real value was added here. I expected at least an in depth compare-contrast between log4j and jdk logging, but this section was very terse. What would be a nice add would be a technical reference that would be one stop shop for syntax. The book didn't even provide a PatternLayout key of codes for logging items, that would be useful.
What we really need is a practical bridge between javadocs and this book, which is a high level academic overview.
I should have just gotten "The complete log4j manual", but I thought this might have been more extensive. I was wrong.