log4j directory creation

[Sairam Krishnamurthy]

Hi, I tried to use log4j for my application. I am new to log4j and at first I created a new application to get familiar with log4j. The following is the appender's properties in log4j.property file. log4j.appender.A2=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender log4j.appender.A2.File=c:/demo1/demo2/app.log log4j.appender.A2=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender # Append to the end of the file or overwrites the file at start. log4j.appender.A2.Append=true log4j.appender.A2.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.A2.layout.ConversionPattern=[%5p] %d{mm:ss} (%F:%M:%L)%n%m%n%n A2 is the logger appender i use. I dint have demo1/demo2 folder in C:. When i used this log4j configuration in my sample application it was a success with demo1/demo2 folder created by log4j. But when i tried to use the same configuration in my application it gives the following error. log4j:ERROR setFile(null,true) call failed. java.io.FileNotFoundException: test\app.log (The system cannot find the path specified) at java.io.FileOutputStream.openAppend(Native Method) at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(Unknown Source) at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(Unknown Source) at org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.setFile(FileAppender.java:282) at org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender.setFile(RollingFileAppender.java:165) at org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.activateOptions(FileAppender.java:161) at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.activate(PropertySetter.java:256) at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties(PropertySetter.java:132) at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties(PropertySetter.java:96) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator Also when i changed the filename = "app.log" with no folder name, the log file is creating in my source folder. So the problem was with the creation of directory. Can somebody help me in this? Thanks in advance. -- ================================== Sairam Krishnamurthy Engineer-Platform Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +91-44-45544660             +91-80-41810800             +91-9840194528             +91-9916420081             +1-650-204-9766 IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Address Diamond Business Park, First Floor, 17 A Kalakshetra Road, Tiruvanmiyur, Chennai - 600 041. ================================== ==