Hi Log4j community! After getting a constructive response from mr. Gary Gregory on Twitter on one of my rage-tweets[1]. I decided to take him up on that and send some feedback to this community.
My bad experience came from spending maybe over an hour trying to just get the framework to pick up my config file. So here I come with a practical suggestion to remedy this: On this[2] docs page, under "Automatic Configuration". You would change the first occurrence of "system property" and "classpath" into a hyperlink pointing to more information *how to set *those values. The problem is that many casual programmers don't know (I didn't). Would that make sense? Note that the mere definition of system property/classpath (the results I would find when Googling the terms) are still of no use, because they lack practical information on how to include the log4j2 configuration file inside my jar and having it being read by log4j2. Lastly, thanks to everybody who've contributed to this well-documented, well-designed, efficient logging framework. The experience is good once you've got the framework to pick up your configuration file. And the more users who don't get frustrated in the phase before that, the more users that have energy left over to contribute back. :) Cheers, Arash Rouhani [1]: https://twitter.com/ArashRouhani/status/775969974397480960 [2]: http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/configuration.html