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 *  Copyright (c) 2006 by Know-Center, Graz, Austria
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 * $Id: ConfigLogger.java,v 1.3 2006/08/30 13:55:50 wprinz Exp $
 */
package at.knowcenter.wag.egov.egiz.cfg;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import org.apache.log4j.Level;
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

/**
 * This logger class is the main logger class for the pdf-as project. It holds static logger
 * instances with could be configured the level with one method.
 * 
 * @deprecated use commons.logging instead
 */
public class ConfigLogger {

  /**
   * The static logger cache. It holds all used logger instances that could be configured by this
   * main class.
   */
  private static ArrayList logger_ = new ArrayList();
  /**
   * This is the Level to use. Default is INFO.
   */
  private static Level level_ = Level.INFO;

  /**
   * This method activates a new log4j logger instance and store the instance in the local logger
   * store.
   * 
   * @param classRef the caller class to be set
   * @return a log4j logger instance
   * @see Logger
   */
  public static Logger getLogger(Class classRef) {
    Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(classRef);
    //logger.setLevel(level_);
    logger_.add(logger);
    return logger;
  }

  /**
   * This method is to set a new logger level for all stored config logger.
   * 
   * @param level the level to set
   */
  public static void setLevel(Level level) {
    level_ = level;
    for (int log_idx = 0; log_idx < logger_.size(); log_idx++) {
      Logger logger = (Logger) logger_.get(log_idx);
      logger.setLevel(level_);
      logger_.set(log_idx, logger);
    }
  }
}