RE: Circular Dependency through Appender

Ivan Alencar [mailto:ialencar <at> gmail.com] wrote:
> I've created a log4j appender (by extending AppenderSkeleton) which uses a
> component that depends on log4j.

If you can change the component then one technique I sometimes use is to pass in a Logger object which may be
null. Or I suppose one could temporarily set the static logger for that class to null while I'm accessing it
from an Appender. You can always programmatically disable the Logger for the component's class too with Logger.getLogger(whatever).setLevel()

Typically I try to write components that don't rely on any particular logging framework at runtime - keep it optional.

Regards,
Michael Erskine.