It's a very common practice to obtain a logger for each class, like this:

class Foo {
  static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(Foo.class.getName());
}

In fact in many logging libraries, there's the form of the getLogger method that takes a Class object,
so that you can write it as:

class Foo {
  static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(Foo.class);
}

The java.util.logging package should support this.

We can actually go one step further and allow applications to be written like this:

class Foo {
  static Logger logger = Logger.getClassLogger();
}

This can be implemented as:

    public static Logger getClassLogger() {
        StackTraceElement[] trace = Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace();
        return Logger.getLogger(trace[1].getClassName());
    }

(In JDK, either this needs to be done in the priviledged block to avoid possible SecurityException)

In this way, there's less characters to type, and more importantly, this line can be cut&pasted from one class to another.