I’m working on an application for a device which supports a subset of Java 1.1.8/1.2, specifically the classes in the following packages:
- java.lang
- java.io
- java.util
- java.net
- java.lang.reflect
- java.util.zip
- java.math
- java.text
- java.security
I want to include quite a bit of logging in this application to make troubleshooting and support easier.
Ideally I would use log4j, but even the version of log4j which supports SDK 1.1.8 requires java.beans among other things.
Is there another logging framework which has fewer dependencies, or am I stuck rolling my own?
My plan is to log to disk which means that a feature like log4j’s RollingFileAppender would be useful for keeping the logs a reasonable size, but all in all I’m not too picky about features as long as it beats rolling my own (which I will end up doing if I have to).
I found the following frameworks, but none of them will work on my device.
- simple-log: Requires 1.4
- MicroLog: Java ME
- Java Logging Framework: Unavailable classes
- Java Logging Suite: This might actually work if I do not use the threadsafe logger (which uses Collections.synchronizedList from java.util), but it’s basic enough and there are enough differences in my needs that I think I’ll be better off rolling my own.
We were unable to find a suitable framework had to write a simple framework of our own.