SLF4J stands for Simple Logging Facade for Java. It provides a simple abstraction of all the logging frameworks. It enables a user to work with any of the logging frameworks such as Log4j, Logback, JUL (java.util.logging), etc. using single dependency.

Audience

This tutorial has been prepared for beginners to help them understand the basic functionapty of SLF4J logging framework.

Prerequisites

As you are going to use SLG4J logging framework in various Java-based apppcation development, it is imperative that you should have a good understanding of Java programming language.