How to configure third-party logging frameworks

By default, LuciadLightspeed and LuciadFusion use the java.util.logger package to log application messages . If your application uses a logging framework other than the default Java logging framework, you can re-configure LuciadLightspeed and LuciadFusion to dispatch log messages to that framework.

At initialization, LuciadLightspeed and LuciadFusion instantiate a global ILcdLoggerFactory that determines to which framework all logging output is sent. Most logging frameworks have a very similar API, so it’s usually quite straightforward to write an implementation of ILcdLoggerFactory for your preferred logging framework.

To connect to your logging framework, add a file called com.luciad.util.logging.ILcdLoggerFactory inside a META-INF/services directory that is accessible from the classpath. This file must contain a single line with the name of your factory class.

For example:

And that’s all there is to it. For your convenience, SLF4JLoggerFactory is availabe as a sample class.