[ https://jira.qos.ch/browse/SLF4J-192?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.i... ] James Howe commented on SLF4J-192: ---------------------------------- bq. why anyone would oppose such part of an API Because SLF4J is an API for *libraries* to use, not applications. No library should be managing application shutdown, just as no library should be managing application configuration.

Need ability to shutdown loggers and flush appenders ----------------------------------------------------

Key: SLF4J-192 URL: https://jira.qos.ch/browse/SLF4J-192 Project: SLF4J Issue Type: Improvement Components: Core API Affects Versions: 1.6.x Environment: Operating System: All Platform: All Reporter: Michael Schall Assignee: SLF4J developers list

There needs to be a way to shutdown logging and flush async appenders so when a process is closing, all log events are written before the process is closed. Should ILoggerFactory have a shutdown or stop method? It could shutdown whatever logging back end I'm using? For log4j it would call - org.apache.log4j.LogManager.getLoggerRepository().shutdown(); For logback it would call - loggerContext.stop() Other back ends - ??? This is required to allow me to not reference logging back ends explicitly in my code to shutdown successfully without losing events. Discussion about this is happening on the user list at - http://www.qos.ch/pipermail/logback-user/2010-September/001816.html

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