Thanks...
I was 'missing' the association of the message key with the logger...
That makes sense.
vbk
Tom Mueller wrote:
> Loggers are associated with a resource bundle. In GlassFish, this is the LogStrings.properties file that is in the Java package of the class that is passed in to the getLogger method. When you pass a message key to the log method, it automatically uses the message from the resource bundle.
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> Tom
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> On Aug 4, 2011, at 12:47 AM, vince kraemer <vince.kraemer_at_oracle.com> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> I am seeing a number of lines of code that look something like this (some classnames are 'complete' to avoid ambiguity...)
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>> java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger("foo").log(Level.FINE, "text.that.looks.like.a.message.key", new Object[] { a, b, c });
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>> I think that will just put the message
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>> text.that.looks.like.a.message.key
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>> into the log when the level is set to FINE or finer...
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>> That seems like it won't be very useful.
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>> So, I must be missing something... can somebody let me know?
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>> Thanks,
>> vbk
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