See the "Default Initialization Procedure" section at
http://logging.apache.org/log4j/docs/manual.html
There is good info about the XML format in the wiki:
http://wiki.apache.org/logging-log4j/Log4jXmlFormat
On 12/14/06, Adam K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 12/14/06, James Stauffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Two suggestions:
> 1. Use Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(getClass().getName());
Thanks for that piece of information, never even thought of using that.
2. Don't use code to configure but use an XML config file. The
> configuration should only happen once so that is why you keep getting
> more log writers.
I have been trying to accomplish this one, but have been having a heck of a
time getting the log4j.properties file picked up. I would be more than
happy to use a .xml version but I haven't had much luck finding a sample one
with writing to a file. I am also a little confused as to how the logger is
supposed to find the config file. Am I missing a simple faq or how-to that
describes this ? Thanks again for the quick and concise answers.
On 12/14/06, Adam K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> >
>
>
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