Hello all, I am happy to announce the immediate availability of SLF4J version 1.6.0-RC0, which is still experimental, consisting of several important enhancements and bug fixes. As of 1.6.0-RC0, in the absence of an SLF4J binding, slf4j-api will default to a no-operation implementation discarding all log requests. Thus, instead of throwing an exception, SLF4J will emit a single warning message about the absence of a binding and proceed to discard all log requests without further protest. Please refer to the the news page for precise details. http://www.slf4j.org/news.html You can download SLF4J, including full source code, class files and documentation on our download page, shown below. http://www.slf4j.org/download.html You can receive SLF4J related announcements by subscribing to the SLF4J announce mailing list. To subscribe to QOS.ch announce list, please visit the following URL. http://qos.ch/mailman/listinfo/announce -- Ceki Gülcü Logback: The reliable, fast and flexible logging framework for Java. http://logback.qos.ch