Hi all I am working with struts and was recently told about log4j. I am
looking to implement this into an application, but have run into a couple of
issues. I have so far managed to get the application to log to a file, but
not in the manner that I want. Currently the application is logging by
placing the following code in a couple classes to test how log4j works.
(The capital letters and bold are replaced with what they should be )
This is declared at the top of each class:
static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger("NAMEOFCLASS.class");
The following is declared inside the execute method in each class:
FileAppender myFileAppender = new FileAppender(new PatternLayout(),
"../log4jlog.log", true);
myFileAppender.activateOptions();
logger.addAppender(myFileAppender);
logger.setLevel((Level) Level.DEBUG);
logger.info("Entering NAMEOFCLASS");
This works, but as I said there are 2 issues.
1) I don't want to be declaring the file location in each of the classes
2) Everytime I instantiate the class again I get another log writer. I am
going to be trying to create a singleton version of the logger, but I am
somewhat confused as I thought each class used it's own logger.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
