November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
398 pages
10h 14m
English
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Logback
Logback is based on log4j. Logback is designed to be a fast and generic framework which can work in different environments. There are three main modules of Logback. They are as follows:
- logback-core : This is the core module needed for Logback
- logback-classic: This module requires logback-core to provide logging services
- logback-access: This module assists servlet containers such as tomcat to capture HTTP access log
Logback implements the Simple Logging Facade for Java (SL4J) API natively, which is a facade for various logging frameworks.
Before we can compare these three frameworks, let's first understand the common factors. All these frameworks are hierarchical, which offers configuration files to make runtime modifications; for ...