Can calls to java.util.logging be redirected via commons-logging?
Yes. The java.util.logging classes present in java since 1.4 are both an API and a (primitive) logging implementation. It is possible to install an “implementation” that redirects messages back to commons-logging, which will then in turn direct the calls to the appropriate concrete logging library that commons-logging is sending other messages to. Alternatively, have your java.util.logging “implementation” send messages directly to the same implementation that commons-logging is bound to. This will be faster – although if you change your commons-logging configuration to use a different logging library then the java.util.logging implementation would need to be changed too. See here for details: http://wiki.apache.
