I've joined this thread late, so apologies if I am stating the obvious.
I thought
this.getServletContextlog(java.lang.String message, java.lang.Throwable
throwable)
was what one must use. In case of Catalina (4.0.1) this output goes to
whatever logger is specified in the server.xml,
<Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
directory="logs" prefix="myservlet_log." suffix=".txt"
timestamp="true"/>
(in fact by allowing the class name to be specified at run time, one can
send it to an MQ queue etc etc).
Again, apologies for stating the obvious.
Cheers
-raj
>dont know. But logging has saved my skin many times. It is worth
>the effort to use log4j than putting lots of system.out.println statements.
>They become clumsy when you have some 10 servlets printing to the console...
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Arnaud H�ritier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 10:56 AM
>To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>Subject: RE: Logging from a servlet in Tomcat
>
>
>One question about this subject.
>Why the Tomcat (4) team (Craig and others) didn't use log4J to trace the
>server ?????
>
>>-----Message d'origine-----
>>De: G.Nagarajan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Date: vendredi 19 octobre 2001 10:48
>>�: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Objet: RE: Logging from a servlet in Tomcat
>>
>>Best is to use Log4j for logging. It gives more control and
>>flexibility than using the servlet logging facility.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Barney Hamish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 10:42 AM
>>To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>>Subject: RE: Logging from a servlet in Tomcat
>>
>>
>>I haven't tried this in 4 but in 3 you can always just print to stdout or
>>stderr
>>eg. System.out.println("In the Foo function");
>>Which will get printed to the console or your logs depending on how you're
>>running tomcat
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Dr. Evil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 10:30 AM
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Logging from a servlet in Tomcat
>>
>>
>>
>>I have a question: It would be extremely useful for a servlet to be
>>able to record debugging messages in some way. I don't have a Java
>>debugger, but I could do a lot of debugging if I had a command that
>>looked like this:
>>
>>log("We are in this part of the code now");
>>
>>I have seen documentation for a command like that, and I have tried it
>>in my installation of Tomcat 4.0, but it doesn't send any output
>>anywhere, so it seems useless. Is there a way to get it to work?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
