Re: logging from jsp, converting from category to logger and getting NoSuchField

2002-02-21 Thread Joel Rees
Thanks for some clues. At least I can think the things I have been trying should have worked. Maybe. I forgot to say I am running Tomcat 3.2 with my log4j 1.2 beta. Java is 1.3. The web-app is configured outside the tomcat directory tree. Had similar problems with 3.3. Boss says this project will

Re: logging from jsp

2002-02-21 Thread Mark Derricutt
I handled this a slighly different way, and just added a log4j JSP tag that took a level, message, and category attributes: Then the code I get an instance of the category as normal, and theres an if block checking the level.. works quite well, but doesn't answer your question... --On Th

Re: logging from jsp

2002-02-21 Thread Kevin Steppe
I would recommend: <% Category slog = Category.getInstance(this.class.getName()); %> The important part is that _this_ is referencable in a JSP (it's just a Servlet class anyway). The static declaration is nice but not all that necessary. There is only one object for slog anyway, even if you hav

Re: logging from jsp

2002-02-21 Thread Scott Farquhar
The problem you get is from using a static category in your jsp in that manner. Either use a non-static logger, or use the jsp taglibs found in the jakarta jsp project. Cheers, Scott Joel Rees wrote: > My initial experiments with 1.1.3 gives me compiler errors when I tried to > instantiate a ca

logging from jsp

2002-02-20 Thread Joel Rees
My initial experiments with 1.1.3 gives me compiler errors when I tried to instantiate a category directly in jsp pages. For instance, <%@ page import="org.apache.log4j.Category" %> <% static Category slog = Category.getInstance( class.getName() ); %> ... gives me org.apache.jasper.JasperExcept