The management interface for the logging facility.

There is a single global instance of the LoggingMXBean. This instance is an MXBean can be obtained by calling the LogManager#getLoggingMXBean method or from the platform MBeanServer method.

The ObjectName for uniquely identifying the LoggingMXBean within an MBeanServer is:

java.util.logging:type=Logging
@author
Ron Mann
@author
Mandy Chung
@version
1.7, 04/20/04
@since
1.5
See Also
java.lang.management.ManagementFactory
Gets the name of the log level associated with the specified logger. If the specified logger does not exist, null is returned. This method first finds the logger of the given name and then returns the name of the log level by calling:
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If the Level of the specified logger is null, which means that this logger's effective level is inherited from its parent, an empty string will be returned.

Parameters
loggerNameThe name of the Logger to be retrieved.
Return
The name of the log level of the specified logger; or an empty string if the log level of the specified logger is null. If the specified logger does not exist, null is returned.
See Also
Logger#getLevel
Returns the list of currently registered loggers. This method calls LogManager#getLoggerNames and returns a list of the logger names.
Return
A list of String each of which is a currently registered Logger name.
Returns the name of the parent for the specified logger. If the specified logger does not exist, null is returned. If the specified logger is the root Logger in the namespace, the result will be an empty string.
Parameters
loggerNameThe name of a Logger.
Return
the name of the nearest existing parent logger; an empty string if the specified logger is the root logger. If the specified logger does not exist, null is returned.
Sets the specified logger to the specified new level. If the levelName is not null, the level of the specified logger is set to the parsed Level matching the levelName. If the levelName is null, the level of the specified logger is set to null and the effective level of the logger is inherited from its nearest ancestor with a specific (non-null) level value.
Parameters
loggerNameThe name of the Logger to be set. Must be non-null.
levelNameThe name of the level to set the specified logger to, or null if to set the level to inherit from its nearest ancestor.
Throws
IllegalArgumentExceptionif the specified logger does not exist, or levelName is not a valid level name.
SecurityExceptionif a security manager exists and if the caller does not have LoggingPermission("control").
See Also
Logger#setLevel