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/*
 * $Id: ErrorLevel_API.html 1362 2006-08-24 20:06:25Z rbair $
 *
 * Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle,
 * Santa Clara, California 95054, U.S.A. All rights reserved.
 *
 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
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 * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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 *
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 */

package org.jdesktop.swingx.error;

import java.util.logging.Level;

/**
 * <p>Extends {@link java.util.logging.Level} adding the <code>FATAL</code> error level.
 * Fatal errors are those unrecoverable errors that must result in the termination
 * of the application.</p>
 * 
 * @author rbair
 */
public class ErrorLevel extends Level {
    /**
     * FATAL is a message level indicating a catastrophic failure that should
     * result in the immediate termination of the application.
     * <p>
     * In general FATAL messages should describe events that are
     * of considerable critical and which will prevent
     * program execution.   They should be reasonably intelligible
     * to end users and to system administrators.
     * This level is initialized to <CODE>1100</CODE>.
     */    
    public static final ErrorLevel FATAL = new ErrorLevel("FATAL", 1100);
    
    /** Creates a new instance of ErrorLevel */
    protected ErrorLevel(String name, int value);
}