How to get condensed logging 'spring style'

Question

Our logs, like most logs, get a bit verbose and most of that noise includes the fqcn of the class that did the logging.

I would like to have it log just the first letter of each package/subpackage until it gets to the class.

Example

com.mycompany.client.magensa.MockMagensaClient

Under normal circumstances this would log as:

c.v.c.m.MockMagensaClient

I can obviously write a custom logger but I am certain there is one I can already use. As I don't even know what this style is I am at a loss for what I am even looking for.

Anyone just wanna say: "Oh, you're looking at ... and you can find it ..."?

Answer 1

If you are familiar with log4j I would use use logback:

http://logback.qos.ch/

http://logback.qos.ch/manual/layouts.html#conversionWord

EDIT:

Apparently also supported in log4j:

http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/apidocs/org/apache/log4j/EnhancedPatternLayout.html