minor usage/grammar improvements in logging section

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Chris Beams 15 years ago
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      spring-framework-reference/src/overview.xml

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<title>Not Using Commons Logging</title>
<para>Unfortunately, the worst thing about
<code>commons-logging</code>, and what has made it unpopular with new
tools, is also the runtime discovery algorithm. If we could turn back
<code>commons-logging</code> (and what has made it unpopular with new
tools) is its runtime discovery algorithm. If we could turn back
the clock and start Spring now as a new project it would use a
different logging dependency. Probably the first choice would be the
different logging dependency. The first choice would probably be the
Simple Logging Facade for Java (<ulink
url="http://www.slf4j.org">SLF4J</ulink>), which is also used by a lot
of other tools that people use with Spring inside their
applications.</para>
<para>To switch off <code>commons-logging</code> is easy: just make
<para>Switching off <code>commons-logging</code> is easy: just make
sure it isn't on the classpath at runtime. In Maven terms you exclude
the dependency, and because of the way that the Spring dependencies
are declared, you only have to do that once.</para>
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<para>Many people use <ulink
url="http://logging.apache.org/log4j">Log4j</ulink> as a logging
framework for configuration and management purposes. It's efficient
and well established, and in fact it's what we use at runtime when we
and well-established, and in fact it's what we use at runtime when we
build and test Spring. Spring also provides some utilities for
configuring and initializing Log4j, so it have an optional compile
time dependency on Log4j in some modules.</para>

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