/**
 * <copyright> Copyright 2006 by Know-Center, Graz, Austria </copyright>
 * PDF-AS has been contracted by the E-Government Innovation Center EGIZ, a
 * joint initiative of the Federal Chancellery Austria and Graz University of
 * Technology.
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 */
package at.gv.egiz.pdfas.framework.logging;

import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;

/**
 * This factory creates statistic logger implementations.<br/>
 * Note that it exclusively creates {@link CsvStatisticLogger} implementations at the moment. It should just be regarded
 * as template for further factory implementations. Strictly speaking this factory does not fulfil the respective GoF
 * pattern.
 *
 * @see StatisticLogger
 * @author Datentechnik Innovation GmbH
 */
public class StatisticLogFactory {

	/**
	 * Returns a statistic logger implementation.
	 *
	 * @param clazz
	 *            The class.
	 * @return A statistic logger implementation.
	 */
	public static StatisticLogger getLog(Class<?> clazz) {
		return getLog(clazz.getName());
	}

	/**
	 * Returns a statistic logger implementation.
	 *
	 * @param name
	 *            The name of the logger.
	 * @return A statistic logger implementation.
	 */
	public static StatisticLogger getLog(String name) {

		// to be changed some day, producing various logger implementations
		return new CsvStatisticLogger(LogFactory.getLog(name));
	}

}