Logging broken ?

Tue Apr 5 12:40:00 GMT 2005

Ok it'S me again I eliminated my Nullpoiinter Exceptiona dn it comes 
back to the Logging framework.
I wrote a little test application that should just log one line into a 
debug.log file. It crashes with a Nullpointerexception.
Is this known or new or normal ?
Should I file a Bugreport ?
Is there a workaround with standard Java tools besides writing my own 
Logging framework or using Log4J ?
-Andreas
PS: Here my Testapplication
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.logging.FileHandler;
import java.util.logging.Handler;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter;
public class Hello {
 public static void main(String[] args) throws SecurityException, 
IOException {
 Handler logfile = new FileHandler("debug.log");
 logfile.setFormatter(new SimpleFormatter());
 Logger tLog = Logger.getLogger("");
 tLog.addHandler(logfile);
 System.out.println("Now starting to LOG");
 tLog.log(Level.SEVERE,"Simple log test");
 System.out.println("Method END");
 }
}