Declaring Your Logger - No Problem
I used to like the java specialists newsletter, most news used to be a bit challenging. Nowadays however the quality is lower. In the latest news, the author proposes to use the StackTrace to get the class name, in order to declare a Logger independently of any explicit reference to the class name.
While this is a clever hack, it still requires some code to be duplicated in every class, compared to Aspect/IoC approach. But was there really a problem with declaring loggers the usual way in the first place?
With modern IDEs, most people just create a template for the logger declaration line. Also, renaming MyClass to MyClass2 will rename MyClass.class to MyClass2.class automatically. Here is my template for Eclipse to which I assigned the short name log4j:
private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(${enclosing_type}.class);