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Logging frameworks are the center of some discussions lately. See here and here.

Five years after the Java Logging API appeared in Java 1.4, and with the availability of the LumberJack implementation of the Java Logging API for prior versions of Java for just as long, I feel sad that Java people are still arguing about logging frameworks and the use of ill-conceived wrappers, and wrapper-wrappers.

Here's a simple truth that people who are still talking about logging frameworks are missing:

There is an adequate logging framework in the JDK for @#%*-ing five years.

Use it directly. Or, if you like wrappers, write a wrapper yourself. It can be done in less than a day. This is the path of least resistance.

Of course, if after careful consideration, the Java Logging API just isn't going to work for your project, then, yeah, go ahead and use whatever is out there that you like. You have my sympathy. But please keep the complaining to yourself.