Configure Log4j in simple steps

Hi All,

The logging framework always plays a crucial part in your application. In this post i will explain how to configure Log4J in simple steps.
Step1:

Put the Log4j jars file in classpath.

Step 2:
Create a log4j properties | xml file.

# Set root logger level to INFO
log4j.rootLogger=INFO,STDOUT

log4j.appender.STDOUT=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.STDOUT.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.STDOUT.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %p [%t] %C{1} - %m\n

log4j.category.org.hibernate.SQL= STDOUT
log4j.category.org.hibernate.type= STDOUT

XML

<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

Step 3:
Write a program to load and start the logging in application

private static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(TestJPAConfiguration.class);

public static void main(String[] args) {

//this is for basic loading
BasicConfigurator.configure();

//Use property configurator to explicit load the log4j properties file.
//PropertyConfigurator.configure(“log4j.properties”);

//in case of using XML config, Use DOM Configurator
// DOMConfigurator.configure(“log4j.xml”);

logger.info(“Log4J Configured  successfully”);

}

Hope this helps.

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Thanks
R Vashi