java self()_Java “self” (static) reference

I don't think there are any alternatives that are significantly different to the two in your question.

You could create a helper method like this:

public static String getCallingClassname() {

return new RuntimeException().getStackTrace()[1].getClassName();

}

and then

static Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Helper.getCallingClassname());

but that's as expensive as the original version. (FWIW - 300 times as slow is probably not a major concern, unless you have thousands of these loggers. Each of these statics is initialized just once ...)

My personal preference is for the "old fashioned" way of doing it.