The Java Logging APIs, introduced in package java.util.logging,
facilitate software servicing and maintenance at customer sites by producing
log reports suitable for analysis by end users, system administrators, field
service engineers, and software development teams. The Logging APIs capture
information such as security failures, configuration errors, performance
bottlenecks, and/or bugs in the application or platform.
The core
package includes support for delivering plain text or XML-formatted log records
to memory, output streams, consoles, files, and sockets. In addition, the logging APIs are capable of
interacting with logging services that already exist on the host operating system.
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