[LOG4J2-294] Allow getLogger() calls with no logger name provided

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0-beta7
• Fix Version/s: 2.0-beta8
• Component/s: API
• Assignee: Ralph Goers
• Reporter: Ralph Goers
• Created: 25/Jun/13 16:39
• Updated: 25/Jun/13 18:10
• Resolved: 25/Jun/13 17:38

Description

Callers to getLogger are required to pass in a Logger name. Most of the time this name will be the name of the class the getLogger call is in. It would be nice to make this the default so that users can just call LogManager.getLogger().