Hi Dave, log4j was a bit of a mystery to me. Until ... I realised it revolves around more of a 'trick', really - as far as I understand it, anyway(!).
log4J seems to sort of 'bind' to a class, viz: I can declare in a class a logger of type - in my '/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties' file, as follows: # Set root category priority to WARN and set its only appender to A1. log4j.rootCategory=WARN, A1 # Notify I would like to log my class log4j.category.org.mycompany.MyClass=DEBUG As I understand it as long as my class is at org.mycompany.MyClass, i.e. a FQ class name, I can say in my class: private final static Logger log = Logger.getLogger(MyClass.class); (as long as it matches the FQ path listed in the log4j file) ... then this will pick-up the definition in the log4j file. This will then give me log output. You could always define this at a higher level to get the output you need, or you can selectively select the 'class' you want to log in the file. As I say - this is my understanding only and it works for me. Hope this helps. H. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 March 2003 23:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [MVC-Programmers] Log4j How has everyone init'd log4j? Is there an easy way or do I have to write a short servlet and modify web.xml??? thanks. dave s. _______________________________________________ MVC-Programmers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.basebeans.net:8080/mailman/listinfo/mvc-programmers _______________________________________________ MVC-Programmers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.basebeans.net:8080/mailman/listinfo/mvc-programmers