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  1. A Quick Question on Log4J xml config file(s) (4 messages)

    • Posted by: Jason Jacob
    • Posted on: January 20 2005 21:05 EST
    To all,

    I've got a quick question on Apache related products.
    As you know, when configuring Log4J, you can either config the loggers in the program or config it through an XML config file.

    I would like to know where can I get the cross reference information on all the Appender settings.

    eg. for a RollingFileAppender, you need to config the Name of the file and the max file size for rolling; I know how to set them in a Java program; but I don't know the corresponding Tags in the XML.... (actually the tag names aren't exactly matching the ones in the Java API)

    PS. This is the same to using Apache's Struts; the tag names aren't really matching the related API method names...

    Thanks!

    From Jason (Kusanagihk)
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  2. A Quick Question on Log4J xml config file(s)[ Go to top ]

    Actually I'd rather use the old ".properties" style. It is much easier to keep IMO.

    This XML-mania is sometimes nonsense...
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  3. A Quick Question on Log4J xml config file(s)[ Go to top ]

    Hi,

    I came accross this link:

    http://www.javaworld.com/javaforums/printthread.php?Board=TheoryPractice&main=2396&type=post

    Hope it helps,
    Biljana
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  4. AsyncAppender[ Go to top ]

    Actually I'd rather use the old ".properties" style. It is much easier to keep IMO.

    This XML-mania is sometimes nonsense...

    Using the AsyncAppender requires the use of DOMConfigurator. So the normal properties file method won't work. If asynchronous logging is a requirement, the the xml properties file is unavoidable. Unless I'm missing something.
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  5. Some information[ Go to top ]

    Hi..

    i found some information on the BEA Weblogic configuration Help:
    http://e-docs.bea.com/workshop/docs81/doc/en/core/index.html

    For your question.. here are the parameters I'm using:

      <appender name="custom" class="org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender">
        <param name="File" value="/var/logs/custom.log"/>
        <param name="Append" value="true"/>
        <param name="MaxFileSize" value="5000KB"/>
        <param name="maxBackupIndex" value="5"/>
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