All this is explicitly in the docs. You may want to start by taking a look
there B4 posting questions. The docs for this project are very good.
http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/docs/documentation.html
Below is the snippet from the docs describing log4j initialization:
The exact default initialization algorithm is defined as follows:
Setting the log4j.defaultInitOverride system property to any other value
then "false" will cause log4j to skip the default initialization procedure
(this procedure).
Set the resource string variable to the value of the log4j.configuration
system property. The preferred way to specify the default initialization
file is thourough the log4j.configuration system property. In case the
system property log4j.configuration is not defined, then set the string
variable resource to its default value "log4j.properties".
Attempt to convert the resource variable to a URL.
If the resource variable cannot be converted to a URL, for example due to a
MalformedURLException, then search for the resource from the classpath by
calling org.apache.log4j.helpers.Loader.getResource(resource, Logger.class)
which returns a URL. Note that the string "log4j.properties" constitutes a
malformed URL.
See Loader.getResource(java.lang.String) for the list of searched locations.
If no URL could not be found, abort default initialization. Otherwise,
configure log4j from the URL.
The PropertyConfigurator will be used to parse the URL to configure log4j
unless the URL ends with the ".xml" extension, in which case the
DOMConfigurator will be used. You can optionaly specify a custom
configurator. The value of the log4j.configuratorClass system property is
taken as the fully qualified class name of your custom configurator. The
custom configurator you specify must implement the Configurator interface.
|-----Original Message-----
|From: John C. Turnbull [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
|Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 1:45 AM
|To: Log4J Users List
|Subject: Re: Where does it look for configuration files?
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|----- Original Message -----
|From: "John C. Turnbull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 5:04 AM
|Subject: Where does it look for configuration files?
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|> When I use DOMConfigurator.configure(<filename>), what
|rules does it
|follow
|> to look for <filename>?
|
|Specifically I would like to know where it looks for the
|file when only a
|file name (and not a full path) is specified like
|"john.txt" instead of
|"C:\john.txt".
|
|-JT
|
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