Hi, The question may be silly but being new to log4j i have a little doubt. After downloading the source for log4j i was going thru SortAlgo.java pgm and what is not clear to me are the following stmts :- final static Category OUTER = Category.getInstance(className + ".OUTER"); final static Category INNER = Category.getInstance(className + ".INNER"); final static Category DUMP = Category.getInstance(className + ".DUMP"); final static Category SWAP = Category.getInstance(className + ".SWAP"); I wud really appreciate if someone cud clarify on this. Also i need to know is there any way by which we can log directly to database; i mean to say we can log to file, console etc. etc. but is there any way to connect to database and log directly to database. Thanks in advance Regards, Nitin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]