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The subclasses of StreamHandler are ConsoleHandler, FileHandler, and SocketHandler.

A lot of the stream handling code is built into this class.

Property NameDescriptionDefault Value
StreamHandler.levelLog level for the handlerLevel.INFO
StreamHandler.filterFilter to useundefined
StreamHandler.formatterFormatter to usejava.util.logging.SimpleFormatter
StreamHandler.encodingCharacter set encoding to useDefault platform encoding










35.1.Log
35.1.1.A full list of levels.
35.1.2.Logging a Method Call
35.1.3.Logging an Exception
35.1.4.The StreamHandler serves chiefly as a base class for all handlers that write log messages to some OutputStream.
35.1.5.The ConsoleHandler writes log messages to System.err.
35.1.6.The SocketHandler writes log messages to the network over a specified TCP port.
35.1.7.The FileHandler is able to write to a single file, or write to a rotating set of files as each file reaches a specified maximum size.
35.1.8.The FileHandler class supports filename patterns.
35.1.9.The MemoryHandler is a circular buffer in memory.
35.1.10.The ErrorManager
35.1.11.Information Logging
35.1.12.Log to a file
35.1.13.Guaranteeing proper class and method names
35.1.14.Preventing a Logger from Forwarding Log Records to Its Parent