How to get the current class name in Java with log4j

Question

am using log4j for logging, in order to get the class name of the of the respective methods while executing, i got some common method which uses SecurityManager to get the class name, but i dont want to use SecurityManager, is their any other way to get the class name during runtime. Also i dont want to write the code(MyClass.getClassName) to get the classname in each and every class.

class log extends SecurityManager {

public String getClassName() {
        return getClassContext()[3].getName();
    }

}

Answer 1

Solution for static logger:

private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(new Object() { }.getClass().getEnclosingClass());