Tomcat and Servlet Debugging

[Simon Taylor]

I am new to Java and Tomcat having just inherited the admin of some servlets
from someone who has left the company.
I have a servlet that isn't doing what I expect.
It is littered with lines of the following type:-

writeError("Session was not created by superclass");

Which refers to :-

protected void writeDebug(Object msg)
  {
    if (debug==1) {
      Date date = new Date();
      System.err.println("[" + date.toString() + "] [debug] [" +
                         this.getClass().getName() + "] " + msg.toString());
      debugMsg = debugMsg
        + "<TR><TD BGCOLOR='#CCCCCC'>"
        + msg.toString() + "</TD></TR>\n";
    }
    return;
  }

This is throwing an error but I get no error in any of the Tomcat logs even
though I have a Context Logger set up to debug.
I have manually set debug = 1 at the top of the script recompiled and
redeployed and still no debug messages.
Where would these end up.

Reading around it looks like a better approach would be to use Log4J to
debug the servlet. I'd rather not do that if I can get away with a quick fix
using the existing code.
Comments pls.

Simon


Simon Taylor
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