Several changes were introduced in the Public draft of the
java Logging APIs. The implementation should be updated to
reflect these changes.

The ConsoleHandler, FileHandler, MemoryHandler, SocketHandler,
and StreamHandler classes now use a LogManager "filter" property
to locate a default Filter class to act as a Filter on the Handler.

The ConsoleHandler, FileHandler, SocketHandler, and StreamHandler
classes now use a LogManager "formatter" property to locate a
default Formatter class to act as the Formatter on the Handler.
The ConsoleHandler, FileHandler, SocketHandler, and StreamHandler
classes now use a LogManager "encoding" property to determine a
default character set encoding for the Handler.

The javadoc in the class header for each of the Handler classes
has been revised to be more consistent in describing LogManager
properties and to be clearer on what default values are used if
a property is not defined (or is not valid).

The javadoc in each of the concrete Handler classes (in both
the class header and in the constructors) has been revised to
specify that the LogManager properties (or their defaults) are
used as the default configuration for each Handler, unless
explicitly specified otherwise in a constructor.

Removed the (false) assumption that XMLFormatter should always
use UTF-8. I have been reassured that it is OK to use any
encoding (including the platform default encoding) provided
the encoding is specified in the XML header, which we do.

The following constructors were removed. Most of them had
originally been added in response to a request to provide
more consistent constructors. However, now that a richer set
of properties can be defined in the LogManager configuration,
this particular set of constructors no longer makes particular
sense. For example it is unlikely that someone will create a
SocketHandler and want to use the default properties except
for Formatter. People are likely to either want a default
handler configuration, or to override wider sets of the
configuration properties (especially the properties that
control where output is sent).
ConsoleHandler(Formatter)
FileHandler(Formatter)
SocketHandler(Formatter)
StreamHandler(Formatter)



graham.hamilton@Eng 2000-11-13