SLF4J VS Spring

Compare SLF4J vs Spring and see what are their differences.

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SLF4J Spring
23 78
2,257 55,129
1.1% 1.1%
7.8 10.0
17 days ago 2 days ago
Java Java
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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SLF4J

Posts with mentions or reviews of SLF4J. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-21.
  • Slf4j.org TLS Certificate Expired
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jun 2023
  • dazl — a facade for configurable/pluggable Go logging
    2 projects | /r/golang | 21 Apr 2023
    A few years ago, my team moved from Java to Go. Working on Go projects, we encountered a wide variety of logging frameworks with different APIs, configuration, and formatting. We soon found ourselves longing for a logging abstraction layer like Java’s slf4j, which had proven invaluable for use in reusable libraries or configuring and debugging production systems. So, not long after moving to Go, we began working toward replacing what we had lost in slf4j.
  • Fargate logging thru console awslogs or directly to Cloudwatch?
    2 projects | /r/aws | 7 Apr 2023
    I'm not familiar with Serilog as I code mostly in Java, use slf4j (logs to stdout) and our apps send logs to Cloudwatch using the task definition's awslogs configuration. I prefer it this way because I can customize the log configurations in my task definitions. Also the default stream name has this format prefix-name/container-name/ecs-task-id so I can easily identify the logs of the task I want to look at. I haven't experienced any downsides with this approach and our apps publish a shit ton of logs. Cloudwatch approach looks like you can customize the stream name?
  • How does Loggers get multiple parameters in functions
    1 project | /r/javahelp | 4 Apr 2023
    slf4j is open source. You can look at the code.
  • Logging in your API
    13 projects | dev.to | 22 Feb 2023
    Java -> Logback, Log4j2, JDK (Java Util Logging), Slf4j, e.t.c.
  • Primeiros passos no desenvolvimento Java em 2023: um guia particular
    13 projects | dev.to | 19 Jan 2023
    slf4j para padronização dos logs;
  • What are some of the biggest problems you personally face in Java?
    6 projects | /r/java | 27 Dec 2022
  • must known frameworks/libs/tech, every senior java developer must know(?)
    6 projects | /r/java | 9 Dec 2022
    SLF4J
  • Go standard library: structured, leveled logging
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Sep 2022
    > My God. Logging in protobuf?

    Yes, or any other data format and/or transport protocol.

    I'm surprised this is up for debate.

    > Logging is the lowest of all debugging utilities - its the first thing you ever do writing software - “hello world”. And, while I admire structural logging, the truth is printing strings remains (truly) the lowest common denominator across software developers.

    This sort of comment is terribly miopic. You can have a logging API, and then configure your logging to transport the events anywhere, any way. This is a terribly basic feature and requirement, and one that comes out of the box with some systems. Check how SLF4J[1] is pervasive in Java, and how any SLF4J implementation offers logging to stdout or a local file as a very specific and basic usecase.

    It turns out that nowadays most developers write software that runs on many computers that aren't stashed over or under their desks, and thus they need efficient and convenient ways to check what's happening either in a node or in all deployments.

    [1] https://www.slf4j.org/

  • Logback en Springboot
    1 project | /r/CharruaDevs | 3 Aug 2022

Spring

Posts with mentions or reviews of Spring. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-30.
  • Restrictive Abstractions
    2 projects | dev.to | 30 Mar 2024
    This interface is a simplified version of real caching abstractions from Java technologies such as the ones from Spring or JCache (JSR-107). Both are part of quite complex solutions, having more generic types and different capabilities. Also, annotations would be preferred to using Cache directly in most Java applications.
  • They said to use the Default Dispatchers but I found out it was Unconfined
    1 project | dev.to | 21 Mar 2024
    Cross-post: Controller code using Unconfined Dispatcher #32032
  • Spring 6.1 now compatible with virtual threads and JDK 21 overall
    1 project | /r/hypeurls | 19 Aug 2023
  • What's New in Spring Framework 6.1
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Aug 2023
  • CWE Top Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jul 2023
    Mitre really lost a lot of respect with CVE-2016-1000027. Every few weeks a warning that any SpringBoot 2.x project has a CVSS 9.8, which causes all sorts of heartache for those of us bound to CVE remediation. Every blasted security tool reports this one. Spring reviewed and rejected, as did our very, very large organization. Comically, this has become the CVE we use to see how our tools allow us to white/black list entries.

    Thank god Spring dropped this interface in the Framework 6.x / Boot 3.x release, and the end for non-commercial support is this year for the old stuff.

    https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/issues/2...

  • Help with GetMapping annotation
    1 project | /r/javahelp | 1 Jul 2023
    Referring to https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/blob/main/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/bind/annotation/GetMapping.java, the value could have got assigned to any of the other members like name, path, params, etc. Is there any logic involved that enables the single value passed to the GetMapping annotation to be assigned to the value member?
  • What's your most painful experience of debugging an issue that only reproduced in production?
    1 project | /r/java | 11 May 2023
    This one. In short, JMS listeners stopped working randomly (of course only on Saturdays, and only under load), but at first we didn't know that and suspected the message broker at fault. We had quite extensive logging, but no observability on the broker. Can't remember all the details, but eventually we figured out it was the listener container, and I could reproduce it after debugging deeply into Spring code during a load test.
  • 10+ Open-Source Projects For Web Developers In 2023
    14 projects | dev.to | 10 Apr 2023
    GitHub Stars: 51 K GitHub Link: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework
  • Dropwizard 3.0.0 and 4.0.0 have been released
    1 project | /r/java | 31 Mar 2023
    It still has, but it is more of "imaginary" one (https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/issues/24434).
  • how does spring webflux interact with the java servlet api?
    1 project | /r/java | 7 Mar 2023
    Simple: Spring WebFlux does not require Servlet, but can adapt to it. We essentially built our own reactive HTTP abstraction, without any Servlet dependencies. Then we made adapters that use said abstraction for (Reactor) Netty and Servlet. Note that we have specific adapters for Tomcat, Jetty, and Undertow, relying on non-blocking native APIs.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing SLF4J and Spring you can also consider the following projects:

Apache Log4j 2 - Apache Log4j 2 is a versatile, feature-rich, efficient logging API and backend for Java.

Jooby - The modular web framework for Java and Kotlin

Logbook - An extensible Java library for HTTP request and response logging

Vaadin - Vaadin 6, 7, 8 is a Java framework for modern Java web applications.

tinylog - tinylog is a lightweight logging framework for Java, Kotlin, Scala, and Android

Ninja - Ninja is a full stack web framework for Java. Rock solid, fast and super productive.

kibana - Your window into the Elastic Stack

Spring Boot - Spring Boot

graylog - Free and open log management

Google Web Toolkit - GWT Open Source Project

Logback - The reliable, generic, fast and flexible logging framework for Java.

Play - The Community Maintained High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala.