Java logging through multiple classes

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I would like to log in my application which consist of several classes. I would like to have one .txt log file at the end. Therefore I make one static logger instance and I made a FileHandler for it in one class. Because I would like to have one file, I set the second argument for true in the FileHandler to be able to append the log file during logging.

public class MyLogging {
    static Logger logger;
    public Handler fileHandler;
    Formatter plainText;

    public MyLogging() throws IOException{
        //instance the logger
        logger = Logger.getLogger(MyLogging.class.getName());
        //instance the filehandler
        fileHandler = new FileHandler("myLog.txt",true);
        //instance formatter, set formatting, and handler
        plainText = new SimpleFormatter();
        fileHandler.setFormatter(plainText);
        logger.addHandler(fileHandler);

    }

After that, I created the other loggers. I know that I have to instance one logger per class. Therefore I only make the logger (w/o FileHandler) for each class. But all of the loggers referencing for one class (not for the class, where I have created the logger). E.g:

public class Test1 {
    static Logger logger;

    public Test1()throws IOException {

        logger = Logger.getLogger(MyLogging.class.getName());
    }

Although the logging was performed, I am not sure that this is the right solution. Can you give me some advises how to make logging through multiple the classes with the java.util.logging?

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