One way to solve your problem is to use automatic configuration (i.e
rename to log4j.properties and add to your classpath).
On 9/3/05, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm in the process of adding log4j to a project I'm
> working on and I have a question about a configuration
> strategy. I'd like to initialize the configuration of
> loggers in our system based on a common property file
> named mysystemlog4j.properties. To this end, I've
> added something like the following static block to the
> class I happen to be working on:
>
> //Begin Code
> static
> {
> URL url =
> someclass1.class.getResource("/mysystemlog4j.properties");
> PropertyConfigurator.configure( url );
> }
> //End Code
>
> This works fine as far as this class is concerned but
> ideally I'l like this code to execute only once system
> wide but I'm not sure how to accomplish this. The
> system is such that there is no single class which I
> can always count on to have been loaded before any
> logging calls are made from elsewhere in the
> application so there doesn't seem to be any natural
> place to stick the static block. I'm considering
> creating a class com.mycompany.utility.LogInit which
> contains nothing but the static block and then
> requiring each class which contains log statement to
> create a new LogInit( ) in it's ctor. Obviously the
> LogInit static block will only be executed once so
> this will work but it seems there should be a better
> solution. One last note: I'd rather stay away from
> depending on any properties having been passed to the
> vm as various components of the product might
> ultimately end up in different scenarios where we
> don't control startup of the vm. Any thoughts would
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> -jason
>
>
>
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