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From: "Bhat, Mahesh" <Mahesh.Bhat@AbbeyNational.co.uk>
To: java-logging-input@eng.sun.com
Cc: cgu@qos.ch
Subject: Views on the new Logging API (JSR47)
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:44:41 +0100
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Hi

At the outset I would like to say that this is a personal request and not
one from the company I work for. I don't represent the company at all in
this matter nor the company shares this view.

Sun seems to behave more and more like Microsoft by putting in more and more
functionality in the java core programming language. On the whole this may
help but most of the times this involves reinventing the wheel.
Sun has been consistent in criticizing Microsoft along with a host of others
on the integration that they keep doing with their Windows OS starting with
browsers and now with media players and personal firewalls in the upcoming
version of Windows XP... One consequence of this integration  is that other
third party software companies often find themselves out of business - like
Netscape for instance and a host of other small ones.

I would like Sun to stop reinventing the wheel and instead integrate the
logging API from log4j into jdk 1.4 that will make older software easier to
integrate and show Sun's commitment to Open Source and differentiate Sun
from Microsoft.

regards

> A mahesh bhat
Retail E-Commerce Systems
Abbey National
*01908-345819



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