Hi,

First of all congratulations and thank you for this excellent API.

I want to use your Slf4j API in my JDBC driver for the Uno LibreOffice / OpenOffice API. I want to use it to redirect loggers from HsqlDB and H2 to the Uno Logger API, but I can't use it without modifying the slf4j-api.jar service loader. Let me explain my problem. 

Services provider or plugins seem to be loaded in the file:

LoggerFactory.java

with the commande:

ServiceLoader<SLF4JServiceProvider> serviceLoader = ServiceLoader.load(SLF4JServiceProvider.class);

but without ClassLoader who is by default the current Thread's ClassLoader.

My application, a jar file that embeds the Slf4j API and a service provider for the Uno Logger archives (slf4j-api.jar and UnoLogger.jar), that wants to use Slf4j is loaded by a URLClassLoader by LibreOffice which extend the CLASSPATH and which has as ClassLoader the current Thread's ClassLoader.

As a result, Services or Plugins can't never see the extended CLASSPATH from my application and never load...
Would it be possible to load the services with the ClassLoader of the caller:

ServiceLoader<SLF4JServiceProvider> serviceLoader = ServiceLoader.load(SLF4JServiceProvider.class, LoggerFactory.class.getClassLoader());

instead of that of the current Thread.

This will allow CLASSPATH inheritance through ClassLoaders... and this is the normal behaviour of

new Object()

or

Class.forName()

Thank you.