The Apache Log4j 2 team is pleased to announce the Log4j 2.0-beta5 release!
Apache log4j is a well known framework for logging application behavior. Log4j
2 is an upgrade to
Log4j that provides significant improvements over its predecessor, Log4j 1.x,
and provides
many of the improvements
Remko,
Thanks for clarifying. One of the reasons that I asked, was that I was
thinking of incorporating a section of logging in a Java program with some
of my introductory course materials. Here, we go about a semester and a
half before we introduce packaging. Thus, the occurrence of default
Peter,
I see. Well, best keep it simple then with just a root logger.
A fairly standard industry practice I've seen is to configure
an INFO, WARN or ERROR level Console appender and
a DEBUG or TRACE File appender.
INFO is recommended to only be used for events that
happen only once (like
