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-The Logging package is an ultra-thin bridge between different logging implementations. A library that uses the commons-logging API can be used with any logging implementation at runtime. Commons-logging comes with support for a number of popular logging implementations, and writing adapters for others is a reasonably simple task.
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-See RELEASE-NOTES.txt for details on the current release.
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-Note: The maven2 pom.xml file is affected by the presence or absence of this file. See the comments in that file for details.