Tomcat 8.0.35 The below question is not about logging Tomcat internal activity. This is about logging web applications running within Tomcat.
I have been using tomcat forever. I have been manually adding the Log4J 1.2 JAR file into my web application. Then using Log4J for web application logging. I have been thinking about upgrading from Log4J 1.2 to Log4J 2.2 . The more reading I do the more I am concerned about other JAR files and Tomcat itself getting confused if I make the change to 2.2. Then it hit me. Maybe I have been doing this all wrong to start with. Maybe I should see if I could have my software somehow use whatever the default Tomcat 8.0.35 logging mechanism is. Then I could avoid this issue completely. Questions: 1) Is there a preferred way to log web applications from within Tomcat 8? 2) If so could someone recommend a how to web page? 3) My main two requirements for logging are: be able to set the logging level to debug or error and send logging data to a database. Thanks, Lance
