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.
Tom
On Aug 4, 2011, at 12:47 AM, vince kraemer <vince.kraemer_at_oracle.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks,
> vbk