OpenSAML user discussion

[Chad La Joie <>]

Actually it was used in the XMLTooling code in a few places, but I fixed 
them up to use ClassLoader.loadClass instead.

Note, I do *not* use the thread context class loader because the two 
places (dealing with library configuration) are global (to the 
application) and not restricted to the thread.  So, if the application 
container is following the J2EE model of self-first, then delegate, 
class loading this will work as it should.  Apps running outside a 
container shouldn't notice any change.

Anil Saldhana wrote:
> Thanks Chad for the reply. I think slf4j should work fine.
>
> The reference to Class.forName was a general reference to the OpenSAML2 
> code base (not particularly tied to logging). I remember seeing the 
> usage long ago. I did a fresh scan on the alpha1 tagged workspace and I 
> do not see any usage. So please ignore. :)
>
> Thanks for the good work.
>
> On Nov 5, 2007 11:41 PM, Chad La Joie < 
> <mailto:>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     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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