Package marauroa.common

Class Log4J

java.lang.Object

marauroa.common.Log4J

public class Log4J
extends Object

This is a convenience class for initializing log4j Please when using Log4j follow the next rules:

• debug just debug info that may be need to find a bug.
• info is just important information that we should be aware to spot behaviors on application.
• warn is a problem that application will handle itself
• error is a big problem on the application that it can't handle.
• fatal is such a problem that the application will stop.

Author:

Matthias Totz

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
Log4J()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static Logger	getLogger(Class<?> clazz)	returns a logger for the given class.
static void	init()	initializes log4j with the log4j.properties file.
static void	init(String filename)	initializes log4j with a custom properties file.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

Log4J

public Log4J()

Method Details

init

public static void init()

initializes log4j with the log4j.properties file.

init

public static void init(String filename)

initializes log4j with a custom properties file.

Parameters:

filename - log4j.properties

getLogger

public static Logger getLogger(Class<?> clazz)

returns a logger for the given class. Use this function instead of Logger.getLogger(clazz);. If the logging mechanism changes it will be done here and not in every class using a logger.

Parameters:

clazz - the Class requesting a logger

Returns:

the logger instance