vendredi 16 février 2007
Tuning the logging level in Tomcat
Par Nicolas, vendredi 16 février 2007 à 17:20 :: geek stuff
Little tip in case ou want to have HIGHER level of logging from tomcat (version 5.5 or higher), because he fails to do something but just says failure
Tomcat, out of the box, does not include any logging library. However, if you want to make some fine-tuning on the logging, he is ready to achieve your configuration.
At startup (my guess...) Tomcat checks if some special configuration has to be applied, via the "bridge" interface commons logging . This library can be described as a logging implementation abstraction layer. If so, he applies it. Commons logging interface hides the actual implementation, that is, you can use either log4j or any alternative behind the scenes.
Anyway, drop the commons logging and log4j jar files in the common/lib directory, write a log4j.properties file in the common/classes directory, and you should be fine.
Log4j.properties example :
log4j.rootLogger=ERROR, A1
log4j.appender.A1=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.A1.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
# Print the date in ISO 8601 format
log4j.appender.A1.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %t %-5p %c - %m%n
log4j.logger.org.apache=DEBUG
Pour tester tout ça, rapatriez ce petit projet JSF dans eclipse, ant compile et deploy...