OpenSAML user discussion

[Chad La Joie <>]

Anil Saldhana wrote:
> A question I want to ask is: if my managed server environment (Ex:Java 
> EE Application Server) still uses commons-logging/log4J, will I be able 
> to use sl4j in that environment just for opensaml2?  Any issues you foresee?

Your best bet is to read up on the documentation for SLF4J.  The short 
answer is, yes, this is fine.

> Another issue I want to point is whether it is possible to make use of 
> thread context class loader  to create instances rather than 
> Class.forName ? This is  required in Java EE environments (due to class 
> loaders issue again).

This will depend on the underlying logging system you use.  SLF4J just 
binds to some system, so it will depend on what that logging system 
does.  SLF4J, itself, does not use Class.forName.

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