Lombok and Slf4j

I already talked  a bit about Slf4j, as a recommended interface to any implementor logger.

I have already talked about Lombok, and the fantastic way it creates java bytecode in compile time in order to make you safe some time.

Now let's reduce the time and code we need in almost every class:
private static final org.slf4j.Logger log = org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LogExample.class);
with:
@Slf4j

That's all, put that annotation in your class, and you'll have your logger, with name "log", referring that class, and using Slf4j interface. Simply perfect ;)

If you are still a log4j lover, or maybe for other loggers, Lombok provides these annotations:

@CommonsLog
Creates private static final org.apache.commons.logging.Log log = org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getLog(LogExample.class);
@Log
Creates private static final java.util.logging.Logger log = java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(LogExample.class.getName());
@Log4j
Creates private static final org.apache.log4j.Logger log = org.apache.log4j.Logger.getLogger(LogExample.class);

More information here!

See you soon..