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Notes on default logging in Biff
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Thanks to @olavfosse for writing this up:

The logging architecture of our aplication looks like this. The leftmost nodes are user-facing logging APIs. They all hand their logs over to slf4j, which in turns hand them over to slf4j-simple, which prints them.

clojure.tools.logging -\
                 log4j -\
                         -> slf4j -> slf4j-simple
                   jul -/
                  jcl -/

This dep, by virtue of being the first slf4j-binding on the classpath, makes slf4j log to slf4j-simple.

org.slf4j/slf4j-simple     {:mvn/version "2.0.0-alpha5"}

These three deps are slf4j bindings; They, by virtue of being on the classpath, make their corresponding logging library (log4j, jul or jcl) log to slf4j, which in turn logs to our slf4j binding slf4j-simple.

org.slf4j/log4j-over-slf4j {:mvn/version "1.7.36"}
org.slf4j/jul-to-slf4j     {:mvn/version "1.7.36"}
org.slf4j/jcl-over-slf4j   {:mvn/version "1.7.36"}

For historical context on why Java logging is as complicated as it is, see https://lambdaisland.com/blog/2020-06-12-logging-in-clojure-making-sense-of-the-mess

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