I have noticed a number of posts by people asking how to restrict the logging for struts/tiles/validator and have noticed responses ranging from RTFM to detailed info with sample log4j properties files.
Wishing to reduce the verbosity of the logs, I downloaded the latest log4j jar, added it in to my lib folder and to the project library, created a log4j.properties file and commons-logging.properties file and placed both into my src folder so they would be in my classpath (I'm using Eclipse, so it gets copied to the classes folder). I used the properties files from Eddie Bush's posting (at the end of post), rebuilt my project, fired up Tomcat and *voila* the log messages continued to spew.
Trying to cover all of my bases, I went to the Struts website and looked under the FAQ's and HowTo's. None of these documents address logging. I then went to the User & Developer Guides. Section 4.10 says that Struts uses commons logging and has a link to the commons section of the jakarta site, but no details on how to configure for Struts.
The Learning More About Struts section of the Jakarta site has a link to the BaseBeans NewsGroup version of the Struts mailing list - but the Basebeans server has been down since last fall, so the link doesn't work. [Suggestion - change to news.gmane.org]. No wonder this question gets asked so frequently! Anyway, what steps am I missing in configuring the logging? I'm using Struts 11B3.
Eddie Bush wrote:
> You really should be able to get such examples off the components'
> respective sites, but, seeing as how folks seem to have problems with
> this ... here you go :-)
>
> log4j.properties <---
> log4j.rootLogger=DEBUG,A1
> log4j.logger.org.apache.struts.tiles=WARN
>
> # A1 is set to be a ConsoleAppender.
> log4j.appender.A1=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
>
> # A1 uses PatternLayout.
> log4j.appender.A1.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
> log4j.appender.A1.layout.ConversionPattern=%-4r [%t] %-5p %c %x - %m%n
>
> commons-logging.properties <---
> org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory=org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4jFactory
>
>
> The commons-logging.properties file says "Hey, commons-logging, I'm
> using Log4J as my logging implementation!". From there, you just need
> to configure Log4J to your needs. If you need more sophisticated
> control over Log4J, see the Log4J site: http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j
>
> Enjoy! ;-)
>
> Rieberger, Dale wrote:
>
>> Need an example of a commons-logging.properties and log4j.properties
>> files.
>>
>
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