On the Sun website for the
SCJD exam the folowing is stated:
The following APIs and facilities may not be used:
* Enterprise JavaBeans
*
Servlets,
JSP technology, or any other web-oriented APIs
* NIO, the New IO facilities
*
Java DataBase Connectivity (
JDBC) and SQL
* Java IDL API and CORBA
* Third party software libraries or tools
I would believe that log4J is a 3rd party Framework hence I would advice you that if you do use it, make sure that you remove it out from your code before handing in your assignment.
If not good luck with your assignment