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package org.slf4j.impl;

import org.slf4j.ILoggerFactory;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.helpers.NOPLogger;


/**
 * NOPLoggerFactory is an trivial implementation of {@link
 * ILoggerFactory} which always returns the unique instance of
 * NOPLogger.
 * 
 * @author Ceki Gülcü
 */
public class NOPLoggerFactory implements ILoggerFactory {
  
  public NOPLoggerFactory() {
    // nothing to do
  }
  
  public Logger getLogger(String name) {
    return NOPLogger.NOP_LOGGER;
  }

}