Getting class name for logging

Question

To log errors for a given class, I'm accessing the class name like so: Is this a 'good' way to return the class name as a String, so it can be used for logging?

private static final String CLASS_NAME = MyClass.class.getName();
logger.error("Error occurred in "+CLASS_NAME);

Answer 1

Java 8 Solution

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles;
...

private final static Logger LOG = 
                     LoggerFactory.getLogger(MethodHandles.lookup().lookupClass());