Java Projects - Second Edition

Java logging

Java since version 9 includes a façade implementation for logging. Its application is very simple and we can expect that logging frameworks will very soon start to support this façade. The fact that this façade is built into the JDK has two major advantages:

• The libraries that want to log no longer need to have any dependency on any logging framework or logging façade. The only dependency is the JDK log façade that is there anyway.
• The JDK libraries that log themselves use this façade and thus, they will log into the same log file as the application.

If we use the logging façade provided with JDK, the start of the ColorManager class will be changed to the following:

package packt.java11.mastermind; import javax.inject.Inject; ...