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What logging libraries do you recommend as alternatives to Log4j? Do these libraries work with Spring and Hibernate? Are they compatible with Slf4j or Jakarta Commons Logging?
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SLF4J, Logback, Logstash, Loki, and Castle Core are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Log4j.
As the name specified, SLF4J is a simple logging façade for java. It is not a logging component, and even it does not do the actual logging. It is only an abstraction layer to an underlying logging component. In the case of Log4j, it is a logging component, and it does the logging instructed to do.
1. As logback is improved, version log4j and versions log4j2 and logback have no difference in terms of performance or any features. Therefore log4j is the most used logging utility before the logback newer versions were invented.
Log4j, Logback, and Log4j2 are good logging frameworks that are broadly used. So which one should you use? I recommend using Log4j2 because it's the fastest and most advanced of the three frameworks. Logback is still a good option, if performance is not your highest priority.
slf4j allows you to use just about all the other logging frameworks at once. Juli, Commons, Log4j etc.. As an output framework to use with slf4j instead of Log4j, I would suggest Logback http://logback.qos.ch/ which is written and maintained by the creator of Log4j.
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