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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.log4j.spi;
+
+import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
+
+/**
+
+ Implement this interface to create new instances of Logger or
+ a sub-class of Logger.
+
+ <p>See <code>examples/subclass/MyLogger.java</code> for an example.
+
+ @author Ceki Gülcü
+ @since version 0.8.5
+
+ */
+public interface LoggerFactory {
+
+ public
+ Logger makeNewLoggerInstance(String name);
+
+}