Log4j has gone away from using Category and now uses Logger in its place. Just Category is still around for backward compatibility. You should see very little difference (as they both work) now, but I don't think categories will exist in Log4j-1.3 so start using loggers now.
Jake
At 09:23 AM 11/16/2002 +0530, you wrote:
Hello friends please tell meWhat is the difference between rootLogger and rootCategory in the configuration log4j.rootCategory=DEBUG, A1 log4j.appender.A1=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender log4j.appender.A1.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.A1.layout.ConversionPattern=%d [%t] %-5p %x - %m%n log4j.logger.Log4jLogSample=debug log4j.rootLogger=DEBUG, A1 log4j.appender.A1=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender log4j.appender.A1.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.A1.layout.ConversionPattern=%d [%t] %-5p %x - %m%n log4j.logger.Log4jLogSample=debug Both outputs the same output. Thanks in Advance. G.Gopala krishna Prabhu -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>