Level.java

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package com.noctarius.tengi.spi.logging;

/**
 * The <tt>Level</tt> enum defines the supported levels for the logging
 * implementation. These internal levels are matched to the external logging
 * framework's logging levels. Since no common rule exists how levels are
 * named or how they are defined please find the matching rules for the
 * different frameworks in the adapter implementations.
 */
public enum Level {

    /**
     * The <tt>Trace</tt> Level designates finer-grained
     * informational events than the <tt>Debug</tt> level.
     */
    Trace,

    /**
     * The <tt>Debug</tt> Level designates fine-grained
     * informational events that are most useful to debug an
     * application.
     */
    Debug,

    /**
     * The <tt>Info</tt> level designates informational messages
     * that highlight the progress of the application at coarse-grained
     * level.
     */
    Info,

    /**
     * The <tt>Warning</tt> level designates potentially harmful situations.
     */
    Warning,

    /**
     * The <tt>Fatal</tt> level designates a severe application error
     * event that will most probably lead the application to abort.
     */
    Fatal
}