org.dstadler.commons.logging.jdk

Class LoggerFactory

java.lang.Object

org.dstadler.commons.logging.jdk.LoggerFactory

public class LoggerFactory
extends java.lang.Object

Taken with explicit allowance from Dr Heinz M. Kabutz on 04.04.2007 from http://www.javaspecialists.co.za/archive/newsletter.do?issue=137: Dear Reinhold, please go ahead - at your own risk though :-) Please acknowledge the source. Be aware that a IoC framework like Spring can give you incorrect results with the loggers. Thanks for asking :-) und viele Gruesse aus Kreta Regards Heinz -- Dr Heinz M. Kabutz (PhD CompSci) Author of "The Java(tm) Specialists' Newsletter" Sun Java Champion http://www.javaspecialists.eu Tel: +30 69 72 850 460 Skype: kabutz

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Modifier	Constructor and Description
protected	LoggerFactory()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static void	initLogging() Initialize Logging from a file "logging.properties" which needs to be found in the classpath.
static java.util.logging.Logger	make()
static void	rolloverLogfile() Resort to reflection to make any FileHandler that is currently active roll-over the current logfile and start a new one, e.g. this may be useful before a big batch-job starts to have a clean start of log-entries.
static void	sendCommonsLogToJDKLog() Set a system property which instructs Apache Commons Logging to use JDK Logging instead of the default Log4J implementation.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

LoggerFactory

protected LoggerFactory()

Method Detail

make

public static java.util.logging.Logger make()

initLogging

public static void initLogging()
                        throws java.io.IOException

Initialize Logging from a file "logging.properties" which needs to be found in the classpath. It also applies a default format to make JDK Logging use a more useful format for log messages. Note: Call this method at the very first after main

Throws:

java.io.IOException - If the file "logging.properties" is not found in the classpath.

sendCommonsLogToJDKLog

public static void sendCommonsLogToJDKLog()

Set a system property which instructs Apache Commons Logging to use JDK Logging instead of the default Log4J implementation.

rolloverLogfile

public static void rolloverLogfile()

Resort to reflection to make any FileHandler that is currently active roll-over the current logfile and start a new one, e.g. this may be useful before a big batch-job starts to have a clean start of log-entries.

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalStateException - If there is a problem calling the rotate-method of the FileHandler