Chris Lee created SLF4J-450: ------------------------------- Summary: Allow binding to be explicitly specified Key: SLF4J-450 URL: https://jira.qos.ch/browse/SLF4J-450 Project: SLF4J Issue Type: Improvement Components: Core API Affects Versions: 1.8.0-beta2 Reporter: Chris Lee Assignee: SLF4J developers list Currently SLF4J (1.8+) uses ServiceLoader to find bindings; as an improvement for performance sensitive (or otherwise restricted) environments allow the binding to be explicitly specified. For example: {code:java} -Dslf4j.binding=ch.qos.logback.classic.spi.LogbackServiceProvider{code} In the event this property isn't specified then logic could fall-through to existing ServiceLoader behaviour. Examples of where this would be valuable: 1) Cloud functions sensitive to cold-start times (e.g. AWS Lambda).  Avoiding scanning the classpath reduces startup time (and hence request processing time for requests incurring a cold start).  This is the my use case. 2) Class-loader challenged environments where ServiceLoader may not behave as expected; specifying the precise class to load may allow for workarounds. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.3.1#73012)