user.home

[John Coxey]

All:
In the Java JDK1.3 is there any reference to a field/package/name called "user.home"?
The only thing I could find was System.getProperty(); returns the user.home. Meaning the user's home directory.
Reason I am asking is our lead tech architect (20 yrs experience in this game) - said to use user.home in Java as a starting point for creating a logging application for a web-site. Logging application as in errors/exceptions not as in cutting trees.
Thanks,
John Coxey
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[Peter den Haan]

Not sure what your architect wants with user.home - which is AFAIK just, as you note, a system property containing the user's home directory. But as far as logging is concerned, don't waste your time, use Log4J. The de facto standard in Java logging, to the extent that the logging facilities which will be part of the JDK 1.4 core are patterned after it.
- Peter

[Roseanne Zhang]

At least, from the main author of Log4J point of view, it is not: http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/docs/critique.html
jdk1.4 version is different.

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[Roseanne Zhang]

However, I like Log4J very much!

[Peter den Haan]

Originally posted by Roseanne Zhang:
At least, from the main author of Log4J point of view, it is not: http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/docs/critique.html

Roseanne, I'm not sure where you got the impression that the JDK 1.4 logging API is not patterned after Log4J. According to the author you quote, "the java.util.logging API will resemble log4j [...] The way the two APIs name their components may differ but otherwise their degree of resemblance is quite striking." Look in the follow-up critique to the one you quote.
- Peter
NB. "patterned after" != "identical to".
[This message has been edited by Peter den Haan (edited November 01, 2001).]