The following code can be used to change the level at which events are logged by clients of the driver ...

import java.util.logging.Logger;
Logger mongoLogger = Logger.getLogger( "com.mongodb" );
mongoLogger.setLevel(Level.SEVERE);

However, rather than have to write this code in many different places, I'd really like to have the ability to set the logging level in a single place. For example, the Amazon SDK, hc.apache and others allow me to do this in a log4j.properties file like so:

1. Uncomment to turn off all logging from the SDK
   log4j.logger.com.amazonaws=OFF

1. More examples – adjust to see more / less logging
   #log4j.logger.com.amazonaws.ec2=WARN
   #log4j.logger.httpclient.wire=WARN

log4j.logger.org.apache.http=OFF
#log4j.logger.org.apache.http=DEBUG
#log4j.logger.org.apache.http.wire=ERROR
#log4j.logger.org.apache.http.impl.conn=ERROR
#log4j.logger.org.apache.http.impl.client=ERROR
#log4j.logger.org.apache.http.client=ERROR

Is there any way to do something like this with the mongoDB java driver?