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An adapter to use SLF4J as service provider and runtime log engine for the ELF4J (Easy Logging Facade for Java) API
https://github.com/elf4j/elf4j-slf4j

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An adapter to use SLF4J as service provider and runtime log engine for the ELF4J (Easy Logging Facade for Java) API

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# elf4j-slf4j

An adapter to use [SLF4J](https://www.slf4j.org/) as service provider and runtime log engine for
the [ELF4J](https://github.com/elf4j/elf4j) (Easy Logging Facade for Java) API

## User story

As an application developer using the [ELF4J](https://github.com/elf4j/elf4j) API, I want to have the option of
selecting [SLF4J](https://www.slf4j.org/) as my log engine, at application deploy time without code change or
re-compile.

## Prerequisite

- Java 8+

## Get it...

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## Use it...

If you are using the [ELF4J API](https://github.com/elf4j/elf4j/) for logging, and wish to select or change to use SLF4J
as the run-time implementation, then simply pack this service provider in the classpath when the application deploys. No
code change needed. At compile time, the client code is unaware of this run-time logging service provider. With the
ELF4J facade, opting for SLF4J as the logging implementation is a deployment-time decision.

The usual [SLF4J configuration](https://www.slf4j.org/manual.html#swapping) applies.

With Maven, in addition to use compile-scope on the [ELF4J API](https://github.com/elf4j/elf4j) dependency, an end-user
application would use runtime-scope for this provider as a dependency:

```html

io.github.elf4j
elf4j
compile

io.github.elf4j
elf4j-slf4j
runtime

```

Note: Only one logging provider such as this should be in effect at run-time. If multiple providers end up in the final
build of an application, somehow, then the `elf4j.service.provider.fqcn` system property will have to be used to select
the desired provider.

```
java -Delf4j.service.provider.fqcn="elf4j.slf4j.Slf4jLoggerFactory" -jar MyApplication.jar
```