Re: RFR: 8177136: Caller sensitive methods Logger.getLogger, Logger.getAnonymousLogger, and System.getLogger should throw IllegalCallerException if there is no caller on the stack.

[Daniel Fuchs]

On 20/03/17 21:28, David Holmes wrote:
If you are going to introduce an API with such a constraint then the
constraint needs to be clearly documented and the alternatives also
documented IMHO. System.getLogger relies on a notion of "current module".

Yes:

    Instances returned by this method route messages to loggers 
obtained by calling LoggerFinder.getLogger(name, module), where module 
is the caller's module.

-- daniel