I simply pass in the class of the object/static calling the abstract
logger - e.g. LogFactory.getInstance().error(this.getClass(), "error!");
sam
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Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 5:56 PM
Subject: RE: Designing Logging class
> For the project I'm working on, we've done something similar. The one
> problem
> that you run into when you do this (or use any sort of abstraction for
> logging) is that
> log4j will no longer be able to accurately determine runtime information
> such as
> the calling method/class/line number. The reason for this is that this
> information is
> determined by generating a Throwable and then locating the relevant
> information in
> the call stack. By using an abstraction layer, you throw off the
> calculation, so it ends up
> always saying that the calling method is your abstracted log method.
>
> If anyone has found a way to get around this, feel free to comment.
>
> -Mike
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