examples/src/objectBased/Base.java

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package objectBased;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;


/**
 * 
 * An almost trivially simple Base class.
 * 
 * It uses the {@link #getLogger} method to retreive the logger to use. This 
 * method can be overrriden by derived clases to acheive "object" based logging.
 * 
 * @author Scott Melcher
 * @author Gülcü
 */
public class Base {
  static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(Base.class);

  public void myMethod() {
    getLogger().debug("logging message");
  }

  public Logger getLogger() {
    System.out.println("Base.getLogger called");
    return Base.logger;
  }
  
}