I'm -1 on this recommendation. SLF4J and Logback require messages to be Strings. I "cheat" in audit logging by passing a Map as one of the parameters. Although the Map can be serialized and deserialized the cost of doing that is very high when the Map is just being passed to a local Appender. FWIW - I'm planning on adding this Auditing capability to XLogger in the near future. Ralph On Feb 23, 2009, at 2:34 PM, Joern Huxhorn wrote:
I also still think that the LoggingEvent should not know about the logic behind the transformation from the Object[] arguments to the String[] arguments.
Therefore I'd suggest to define void setArgumentArray(String[]) instead of void setArgumentArray(Object[]) (see http://jira.qos.ch/browse/LBCLASSIC-45 )