Re: Logging Strategy/best practice

Lord0 wrote: 
Hi there,

I am working on a startup J2EE project: JBoss, Spring, Hibernate etc.
One of my responsibilities is to set up the "logging".

I have chosen to use log4j, or more precisely was nudged in that
direction. I've used it before on smaller projects with no problems;
basically a log4j.properties file defining various categories,
appenders and layouts. This approach seems a bit shallow for a larger
project i.e. 100s+ of classes - maybe I'm wrong.....


That depends on how your loggers are used.

Keep in mind that you can configure loggers at the "package" level. That is, you can set the logging for com.xyz.abc.def to INFO and that applies to all loggers of the form com.xyz.abc.def.*.


Questions:

1. Is log4j a suitable solution for this environment? 

Of course.

2. Any URLs for logging best practices/patterns. Here I am thinking
about something more involved than a "Log4j 101" article.


http://logging.apache.org

The founder of log4j has written a book that serves as a manual. You should be able to find it from the Apache site.

You may also want to join the log4j-users mailing list, also available from the Apache site.

3. Anything else I should consider? 

Use the XML format for the properties file, not the .properties format.


Cheers for yer time

Lord0


HTH,
Ray

--
XML is the programmer's duct tape.
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