Mark, On 6/20/2011 10:54 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: > On 20/06/2011 15:51, Rainer Jung wrote: >> Should we use the new OneLineFormatter as the default juli formatter? >> >> I never found anyone who liked the default java.util.logging log format, >> which spreads all messages out via two lines. One line contains the >> timestamp, the other line the message. >> >> So if your grep for a message, you want find out when it was issued, and >> if you look for a certain time range, yout wont see the actual messages. >> Non-sense. >> >> Now that we have our nice little OneLineFormatter, why not use it as >> default? >> >> If we use it as default: should be have it as default without config, >> i.e. as a default in code, or do we want to add the .formatter lines to >> our loggging.properties? Or add the formatter system property to >> catalina.properties? >> >> I think I would favor having it as a code default, i.e. without any >> configuration. > > That might be a surprise for users.
+1 Though I also hate the timestamp\nmessage format, too, enough people probably rely on it to seriously break things. > I'd lean towards make it the default via config (very easy to revert) > and change the code default for 8.x onwards. +1 -chris
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