POI still does not distribute the version of log4J its using. We SHOULD build the distribution with at least the current released non-alpha/beta version of log4j and try to work with the rest. Because of the constants we're using from LOG4J we have to rebuild to work with other versions. This is bad, very bad. We should fix that for 2.0. I have some ideas on that that I'll post to the list. The POI distribution jar is mislabled as 1.1 not 1.4583. This stuff should be fixed before 1.5 is released.
IMHO it's time to use the famous logging facade. We could then have *any* logger optional, because we would give a simple System.out logger and a null logger. Is this ok?
Do you mean the logging project from commons? Last time I talked about doing that the idea was not warmly received.
last time it was the issue of it not being ready yet. Lets check with scott.
Furthermore the binary distribution doesn't contain commons-logging which well is needed for the thing to work so should be included IMNSHO.
*** Bug 7421 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This appears fixed as far as I can tell. Resolving.