making a wrapper for log4j

[G.L. Grobe]

I'm trying to put a wrapper around the Logging so that I won't have to put log4j imports and declarations all over my code. I've heard of other doing this but I'm not exactly sure how so I was hoping I could get some pointers on what I've done so far.   Any help much appreciated.   ---- package com.neuroquest.cais.log;   import org.apache.log4j.Category; import org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator;   public class Logger extends Category {    static Category cat;      public Category getCat() {       return cat;    }              public Logger(String name) {       try {          PropertyConfigurator.configure("rtlog.properties");       }       catch (Exception e) {          System.err.println("Could not open rtlog.properties");       }       if (cat == null)          cat = Category.getInstance(name);    } }