/**
 * <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.
 *
 * Licensed under the EUPL, Version 1.1 or - as soon they will be approved by
 * the European Commission - subsequent versions of the EUPL (the "Licence");
 * You may not use this work except in compliance with the Licence.
 * You may obtain a copy of the Licence at:
 * http://www.osor.eu/eupl/
 *
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 * distributed under the Licence is distributed on an "AS IS" basis,
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 * See the Licence for the specific language governing permissions and
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 *
 * This product combines work with different licenses. See the "NOTICE" text
 * file for details on the various modules and licenses.
 * The "NOTICE" text file is part of the distribution. Any derivative works
 * that you distribute must include a readable copy of the "NOTICE" text file.
 */
package at.gv.egiz.pdfas.performance;

import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;

/**
 * @author wprinz
 * 
 */
public class PerformanceTimer
{
  /**
   * The log.
   */
  private static Log log = LogFactory.getLog(PerformanceTimer.class);

  protected String name = null;

  protected long startTime = -1;

  protected long stopTime = -1;

  public PerformanceTimer(String name)
  {
    this.name = name;
  }

  public void start()
  {
    this.startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
    log.trace(this.name + ": started at " + this.startTime);
  }

  public void stop()
  {
    this.stopTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
    log.trace(this.name + ": stopped at " + this.stopTime);
    log.trace(this.name + ": time elapsed = " + getTimeElapsed());
  }

  public long getTimeElapsed()
  {
    return this.stopTime - this.startTime;
  }
}