Hi Andreas, I've downloaded a recent version of mysql-connector and I've tried your attatched program. I get exactly the same error as before. I send you my configuration file (attention: logger's name is different). This file is dynamic and it is constructed with the content of a database. So I use my mysql-connector to access to the database. As I said you before, I don't have problem when all appenders are FileAppender but if one of then is a JdbcAppender, it is impossible to excecute "DOMConfigurator.configure" I work with Oracle JDeveloper 10g but I've the same problem with the instruction java -cp...... Thanks for your previous message. Raoul
________________________________ De: Andreas Fester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: sam. 04.06.2005 19:04 À: Raoul OPPLIGER Cc: Log4CXX User; log4j-user@logging.apache.org Objet : Re: A error message with JdbcAppender Hi Raoul, seems that you hit the wrong mailing list :-) - log4cxx is for the C++ port of log4j. To not loose context, I appended your full original mail and forwarded it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Although you said that mysql-connector-java-3.0.16-ga-bin.jar is in your classpath those kind of problems are almost always a misconfigured classpath. Please try the attached test program with the also attached .xml configuration file - When I start it (on Unix) with java -cp lib/log4j-1.2.9.jar:. LogTest I get exactly your error, but when I start it with java -cp lib/mysql-connector-java-3.1.8-bin.jar:lib/log4j-1.2.9.jar:. LogTest I get a connection error (because I have no mysql database running), but at least the driver was loaded. Your mysql-connector 3.0.16 seems a bit out of date, I downloaded a current one from the mysql homepage. I use log4j 1.2.9 with j2sdk 1.4.2. HTH, Andreas Raoul OPPLIGER wrote: > I use log4j with a xml configuration file. > > I don't have problems when I use FileAppender but when I introduce a > jdbcAppender in my config file > > <appender name="system_system_3_database" > class="org.apache.log4j.jdbc.JDBCAppender"> > <param name="URL" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost/OSP"/> > <param name="driver" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/> > <param name="user" value="root"/> > <param name="password" value=""/> > <param name="sql" value="insert into ........."/> > <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout"> > <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d - %c -%-4r [%t] %-5p %c > %x - %m%n "/> > </layout> > </appender> > I've the following message with DOMConfigurator > (mysql-connector-java-3.0.16-ga-bin.jar is in my project CLASSPATH) > > log4j:ERROR Failed to load driver > java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver > at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:199) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:187) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:289) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:235) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:302) > at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) > at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:141) > at org.apache.log4j.jdbc.JDBCAppender.setDriver(JDBCAppender.java:336) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) > at > org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperty(PropertySetter.java:196) > at > org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperty(PropertySetter.java:155) > at > org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.setParameter(DOMConfigurator.java:530) > at > org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.parseAppender(DOMConfigurator.java:182) > at > org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.findAppenderByName(DOMConfigurator.java:140) > at > org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.findAppenderByReference(DOMConfigurator.java:153) > at > org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.parseChildrenOfLoggerElement(DOMConfigurator.java:415) > at > org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.parseCategory(DOMConfigurator.java:335) > at org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.parse(DOMConfigurator.java:781) > at > org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.doConfigure(DOMConfigurator.java:666) > at > org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.doConfigure(DOMConfigurator.java:616) > at > org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.doConfigure(DOMConfigurator.java:584) > at org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.configure(DOMConfigurator.java:687) > at ch.consultas.osp.webcrawling.Log.initialize(Log.java:72) > at mypackage1.Hello.main(Hello.java:20) > log4j:ERROR Failed to load driver > java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver > at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:199) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:187) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:289) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:235) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:302) > at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) > at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:141) > at org.apache.log4j.jdbc.JDBCAppender.setDriver(JDBCAppender.java:336) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) > at > org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperty(PropertySetter.java:196) > at > org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperty(PropertySetter.java:155) > at > org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.setParameter(DOMConfigurator.java:530) > at > org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.parseAppender(DOMConfigurator.java:182) > at > org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.findAppenderByName(DOMConfigurator.java:140) > at > org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.findAppenderByReference(DOMConfigurator.java:153) > at > org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.parseChildrenOfLoggerElement(DOMConfigurator.java:415) > at > org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.parseCategory(DOMConfigurator.java:335) > at org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.parse(DOMConfigurator.java:781) > at > org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.doConfigure(DOMConfigurator.java:666) > at > org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.doConfigure(DOMConfigurator.java:616) > at > org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.doConfigure(DOMConfigurator.java:584) > at org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.configure(DOMConfigurator.java:687) > at ch.consultas.osp.webcrawling.Log.initialize(Log.java:72) > at mypackage1.Hello.main(Hello.java:20) > Debugger disconnected from local process. > Process exited. > > Can you help me? > > Raoul -- Andreas Fester mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://littletux.homelinux.org ICQ: 326674288