From 8c4f5bb8a3ddbe42e5616063218f530181c5da45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Glen Stampoultzis <glens@apache.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 03:50:04 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Same changes but to the head.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/poi/trunk@353335 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 .../org/apache/poi/util/SystemOutLogger.java  | 25 +++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/poi/util/SystemOutLogger.java b/src/java/org/apache/poi/util/SystemOutLogger.java
index ccd9522a1..a9950513b 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/poi/util/SystemOutLogger.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/poi/util/SystemOutLogger.java
@@ -55,21 +55,18 @@
  */
 package org.apache.poi.util;
 
-import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 
-import java.util.*;
 
 /**
  * A logger class that strives to make it as easy as possible for
  * developers to write log calls, while simultaneously making those
  * calls as cheap as possible by performing lazy evaluation of the log
- * message.<p>
+ * message.
  *
  * @author Marc Johnson (mjohnson at apache dot org)
  * @author Glen Stampoultzis (glens at apache.org)
  * @author Nicola Ken Barozzi (nicolaken at apache.org)
  */
-
 public class SystemOutLogger extends POILogger
 {
     private String cat;
@@ -78,7 +75,7 @@ public class SystemOutLogger extends POILogger
     {
        this.cat=cat;
     }
-    
+
     /**
      * Log a message
      *
@@ -88,21 +85,29 @@ public class SystemOutLogger extends POILogger
 
     public void log(final int level, final Object obj1)
     {
-        System.out.println("["+cat+"] "+obj1);
+        if (check(level))
+            System.out.println("["+cat+"] "+obj1);
     }
 
     /**
      * Check if a logger is enabled to log at the specified level
      *
      * @param level One of DEBUG, INFO, WARN, ERROR, FATAL
-     * @param obj1 The logger to check.
+     * @see #DEBUG
+     * @see #INFO
+     * @see #WARN
+     * @see #ERROR
+     * @see #FATAL
      */
-
     public boolean check(final int level)
     {
-       return true;
+        int currentLevel = Integer.parseInt(System.getProperty("poi.log.level", WARN + ""));
+        if (level >= currentLevel)
+            return true;
+        else
+            return false;
     }
 
- 
+
 }   // end package scope class POILogger