[hibernate-dev] Obtaining loggers

[Steve Ebersole]

I was getting tired of statements in the source code to get logger 
instances that spread across sometimes 4 lines because of JBoss 
Logging's verbose means of acquiring a message logger.  So I created a 
more concise form for this for hibernate-core, hibernate-entitymanager 
and hibernate-envers.  I mainly limited it to these projects because 
they have lots of these calls, whereas the others do not.  Feel free to 
copy the approach to the other projects if someone wants.

Essentially each of those projects define a class with 4 static 
methods.  Taking the hibernate-core one as an example:


import org.jboss.logging.Logger;

/**
  * Quite sad, really, when you need helpers for generating loggers...
  *
  * @author Steve Ebersole
  */
public class CoreLogging {
     /**
      * Disallow instantiation
      */
     private CoreLogging() {
     }

     public static CoreMessageLogger messageLogger(Class 
classNeedingLogging) {
         return messageLogger( classNeedingLogging.getName() );
     }

     public static CoreMessageLogger messageLogger(String loggerName) {
         return Logger.getMessageLogger( CoreMessageLogger.class, 
loggerName );
     }

     public static Logger logger(Class classNeedingLogging) {
         return Logger.getLogger( classNeedingLogging );
     }

     public static Logger logger(String loggerName) {
         return Logger.getLogger( loggerName );
     }
}

I just plan on replacing these calls as opportunities arise, rather than 
all in one fell swoop.