Java - Slf4j

http://www.slf4j.org/manual.html (Used by Vertex) is a facade for logger. To use a specific logger, add one of the binding logger package.

Library should declare a runtime dependency only on on slf4j-api and not on any SLF4J binding but only

dependencies {
  runtime 'org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.7.25'
}

To disable SLF4J when you have it as transitive dependency, add the NOP binding as runtime dependency.

Example with gradle

dependencies {
  implementation 'org.slf4j:slf4j-nop:1.7.30'
}

• get a logger

static Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MyClass.class);

• Marker

Marker sqlMarker = MarkerFactory.getMarker("SQL");
// This is a sql message
logger.debug(sqlMarker ,"SELECT * FROM {}", table);

• Mdc

MDC.put("userId", 128746);

To switch of logging frameworks, just replace the below jar bindings as dependency (in the classpath)

• NOP - slf4j-nop-1.7.28.jar NOP - Nothing (No Operation)
• log4j
  • version 1.2: - slf4j-log4j12-1.7.28.jar + log4j.jar
  • version 2: log4j-slf4j-impl + log4j.jar
• java.util.logging - slf4j-jdk14-1.7.28.jar
• Simple - slf4j-simple-1.7.28.jar - Simple implementation for small app, outputs all events to System.err. Only messages of level INFO and higher are printed.
• Jakarta Commons Logging - slf4j-jcl-1.7.28.jar
• logback - logback-classic-1.2.3.jar (requires logback-core-1.2.3.jar)

Even if you don't use SLF4J as logging system, you may have it in your application as transitive dependency (a dependency of your dependency) and you will get this error when starting your application.

SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder".
SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details.

To suppress this message, if you don't want to use SLF4, add the NOP binding as a dependency.

Example with gradle

dependencies {
  runtime 'org.slf4j:slf4j-nop:1.7.30'
}

• http://www.slf4j.org/manual.html