Question

Configuring Log4j: log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.

Asked by: tia_kamakshi

Hi,

I am configuring Log4j for logging in my java application

I get an warning

log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.

and my logs are not generated. My log4j exists at the URL passed

I have created URL with my method

public URL doConfiguration()
    {
        URL url = getClass().getResource("log4j.xml");
        System.out.println("URL is "+url);

        return url;
    }
   
Now when I run my program I get message


URL is file:/C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/user/My%20Documents/NetBeansProjects/Outlook/build/classes/outlook/log4j.xml
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.


Please help me in fixing my log4j conf

Please find my main class code snippet and log4j.xml in Code option below
Kind Regards

package outlook;
 
import com.moyosoft.connector.com.*;
import com.moyosoft.connector.exception.*;
import com.moyosoft.connector.ms.outlook.*;
import com.moyosoft.connector.ms.outlook.folder.*;
import com.moyosoft.samples.outlook.gui.*;
 
import com.comp.outlook.xmlLogic.*;
import com.comp.outlook.businessobjects.*;
import java.io.File;
import java.net.URL;
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import java.util.TimeZone;
import org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator;
 
 
/**
 *
 * @author user
 */
public class Main {
 
    Logger mL = Logger.getLogger(Main.class);
    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        
        TimeZone.setDefault(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Europe/London"));
        
        File f = new File("C:\\Documents and Settings\\user\\My Documents\\NetBeansProjects\\compNewsletterMailMerge\\src\\log4j.xml");
        System.out.println("File Exists: "+f.exists());
 
 
	Main mn = new Main();
        URL url = mn.doConfiguration();
        PropertyConfigurator.configure(url);
        
        FindNewMail fnewMails = new FindNewMail();
        fnewMails.findnewMails();
        
	}
 
    public URL doConfiguration()
    {
        URL url = getClass().getResource("log4j.xml");
        System.out.println("URL is "+url);
 
        return url;
    }
    
}
 
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration SYSTEM "log4j.dtd">
 
<log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/">
 
    <appender name="TEMP" class="org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender">
           <param name="File" value="/NewsletterMailMergeLog.log"/>
           <param name="Append" value="true"/>           
           <param name="DatePattern" value="yyyy-MM-dd"/>
           <param name="Threshold" value="INFO"/>
           <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
              <param name="ConversionPattern"
                     value="%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS} [%t] %-5p %c %x - %m%n"/>
	   </layout>
	</appender>
 
 
 <!--   <appender name="ErrorLog" class="org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender">
           <param name="File" value="/ErrorLog.log"/>
           <param name="Append" value="true"/>
           <param name="MaxFileSize" value="20MB"/> 
           <param name="MaxBackupIndex" value="10"/>
           <param name="Threshold" value="ERROR"/>
           <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
              <param name="ConversionPattern"
                     value="%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS} [%t] %-5p %c %x - %m%n"/>
	   </layout>
	</appender>
-->
    <appender name="ErrorLog" class="org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender">
           <param name="File" value="/NewsletterMailMergeErrorLog.log"/>
           <param name="Append" value="true"/>
           <param name="DatePattern" value="yyyy-MM-dd"/>
           <param name="Threshold" value="ERROR"/>
           <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
              <param name="ConversionPattern"
                     value="%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS} [%t] %-5p %c %x - %m%n"/>
	   </layout>
	</appender>
 
<!-- 220.227.6.10 -->
 <appender name="mail" class="org.apache.log4j.net.SMTPAppender">
  <param name="SMTPHost" value="PBI-NAMSG-04.MGDPBI.global.pvt" />
  <param name="From" value="user@pb.com" />
  <param name="To" value="user@pb.com" />
  <param name="Subject" value="[LOG] Test" />
  <param name="BufferSize" value="1" />
  <param name="threshold" value="ERROR" />
  <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
   <param name="ConversionPattern"
    value="%d{ABSOLUTE} %5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n" />
  </layout>
 </appender>
 
 
    <appender name="TraceLog" class="org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender">
           <param name="File" value="/NewsletterMailMergeTraceLog.log"/>
           <param name="Append" value="true"/>
           <param name="DatePattern" value="yyyy-MM-dd"/>
           <param name="Threshold" value="TRACE"/>
           <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
              <param name="ConversionPattern"
                     value="%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS} [%t] %-5p %c %x - %m%n"/>
	   </layout>
	</appender>
 
<!--
 
<logger name="mccprocesswatcher.Main" additivity="true">
  <level value="Info"/>
  <appender-ref ref="TEMP" />
</logger>
 
<logger name="mccprocesswatcher.Main" additivity="true">
  <level value="Info"/>
  <appender-ref ref="TEMP" />
</logger>
 
<logger name="outlook.Main" additivity="true">
  <level value="Info"/>
  <appender-ref ref="TEMP" />
</logger>
 
<logger name="mccprocesswatcher.Main" additivity="true">
  <level value="Warn"/>
  <appender-ref ref="ErrorLog" />
</logger>
-->
<logger name="compnewslettermailmerge" additivity="true">
  <appender-ref ref="TraceLog" />
  <appender-ref ref="TEMP" />  
  <!--<appender-ref ref="mail" /> -->
</logger>
 
<logger name="com.comp" additivity="true">
  <appender-ref ref="TraceLog" />
  <appender-ref ref="TEMP" />
  <appender-ref ref="ErrorLog" />
</logger>
 
 
    <root>
        <priority value="TRACE" />
   
    </root>
 
 
</log4j:configuration>

                                  
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Answers

 

by: CEHJPosted on 2009-05-10 at 05:03:59ID: 24347910

Put log4j.xml at the root of the app and it should be loaded automatically

 

by: CEHJPosted on 2009-05-10 at 05:06:04ID: 24347916

IOW you shouldn't need to use a Configurator. In any case, you should be using DOMConfigurator with log4j.xml if for some reason you need to do explicit config

 

by: tia_kamakshiPosted on 2009-05-10 at 05:33:36ID: 24348006

Many Thanks it works when I have kept my log4j.xml at the root folder

How can I rename log4j.xml file

May be I can do this using DOMConfigurator

When I am using

File f = new File("C:\\SMEC\\Conf\\log4j.xml");
System.out.println("Conf File Exists: "+f.exists());

URL url = getClass().getResource("C:\\SMEC\\Conf\\log4j.xml");
System.out.println("URL is "+url);

URL url = mn.doConfiguration();
DOMConfigurator.configure(url);

I get ERROR

File Exists: true
Conf File Exists: true
URL is null
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator$2.toString(DOMConfigurator.java:693)
        at org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.doConfigure(DOMConfigurator.java:793)
        at org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.doConfigure(DOMConfigurator.java:696)
        at org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.configure(DOMConfigurator.java:821)
        at outlook.Main.main(Main.java:51)
Java Result: 1


Why I am getting URL null.

I wanted to rename the log4j.xml file

As I may have to change the location of log4j.xml in near future and I have multiple java applications running on same server.

May be I am thinking when I set the classpath for all applications then my application should not confuse which log4j.xml file to use

Thanks and regards

 

by: CEHJPosted on 2009-05-10 at 05:37:16ID: 24348021

>>I wanted to rename the log4j.xml file

No need to do that. Just keep it in the root of each app and you'll be fine, even with multiple apps, as long as you don't configure overlapping classpaths

 

by: tia_kamakshiPosted on 2009-05-10 at 06:44:51ID: 31579900

Many Thanks

 

by: CEHJPosted on 2009-05-10 at 07:32:10ID: 24348510

:-)

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