[leifwells]

I am a new MyEclipse user who is a little confused.

Until recently I’ve been using cygwin to “tail -f catalina.log” and have placed a lot of messages in my app so I can debug.

Since moving to MyEclipse and starting and stopping the server from the interface as well as watching the server output in the console window, I have noticed that I have lost all of my debugging printouts.

I have MyEclipse Tomcat 5 “Launch” setting set to Debug.

Am I misusing the console? Do I have MyEclipse (or Tomcat) poorly configured?

What am I doing wrong

[Riyad Kalla]

What do your debug statements look like? What is the code you are using to print them out? Is it to a custom stream?

[leifwells]

@support-rkalla wrote:

What do your debug statements look like? What is the code you are using to print them out? Is it to a custom stream?

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import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;

public MonthSummary getDatesWithJournalEntryStatusForMonth(int month)
{
log.info(“************************** Attempting to getDatesWithJournalEntryStatusForMonth, month: ” + month);
User user = (User) getUserFromSession();
return this.studentDao.getDatesWithJournalEntryStatusForMonth(user, month);
}

private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(FlashControllerImpl.class);
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Here is an example of how the code is creating the log statements.

Thanks for the assist.

Leif

[Riyad Kalla]

Leif,
What is the contents of your log properties file? The behiavor of the log is setup entirely by these configs files, I can’t really speak to why it’s not working yet because I don’t know how you’ve configured it.

[leifwells]

@support-rkalla wrote:

Leif,
What is the contents of your log properties file? The behiavor of the log is setup entirely by these configs files, I can’t really speak to why it’s not working yet because I don’t know how you’ve configured it.

Thanks for your patience! Here’s my log4j.properties file contents.

Honestly, I have been dumped into this project and have never needed to set up log4j, so anything you can do to assist me would be deeply appreciated!

(In fact, I am going to show MyEclipse at the Atlanta Macromedia User Group tonight! http://www.altmmug.org)

Leif

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# Attach appender A1 to root. Set root priority to Prority.DEBUG.
log4j.rootCategory=DEBUG, A1

# A1 is set to be a FileAppender sending its output to
# System.out. However, only error messages and above will be printed
# since the threshold is set to Priority.ERROR.

# The fact that the root priority is set to Prority.DEBUG only
# influences log requests made to the root category. It has no
# influence on the appenders attached to root.

log4j.appender.A1=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.A1.Threshold=ERROR

log4j.appender.A1.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.A1.layout.ConversionPattern=%p [%t] %c{2} (%M:%L) – %m%n

# Appender A2 writes to the file “scribbles.log” in user’s home.
log4j.appender.A2=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender
log4j.appender.A2.File=${scribbles.root}/WEB-INF/scribbles.log

# Set the category priorities to the appropritate levels
# and attach appender A2.
log4j.category.com.roundboxmedia.scribbles.controller=DEBUG, A2
log4j.category.com.roundboxmedia.scribbles.aspect=DEBUG, A2
log4j.category.com.roundboxmedia.scribbles.model=DEBUG, A2
log4j.category.org.apache.catalina=DEBUG, A2

# Truncate ‘test’ if it aleady exists.
log4j.appender.A2.Append=false

# Appender A2 uses the PatternLayout.
log4j.appender.A2.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.A2.layout.ConversionPattern=%5r %-5p [%t] %c{2} – %m%n

[Riyad Kalla]

(In fact, I am going to show MyEclipse at the Atlanta Macromedia User Group tonight! http://www.altmmug.org)

Very cool!

log4j.appender.A1=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.A1.Threshold=ERROR

log4j.appender.A1.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.A1.layout.ConversionPattern=%p [%t] %c{2} (%M:%L) – %m%n

Hmmm this actually looks just fine, your properties file is setup correctly and all the settings look valid, I can’t imagine why you aren’t seeing the console output.

Try this, try and add a System.out.println and System.err.println print outs in your code, so you see them in the console? Also is your properties file somewhere in your classpath so Commons Logger can find it? I wonder if it isn’t being deployed correctly with your project or something…

[leifwells]

Also is your properties file somewhere in your classpath so Commons Logger can find it? I wonder if it isn’t being deployed correctly with your project or something…

Nail on the head!

Thanks for assisting me with this problem. I had to get the log4j.properties file in the correct path for Tomcat to find it (although I am pretty sure that it isn’t in the correct folder yet, it is working).

Funny thing, I changed the threshhold to ALL — ouch. Now that’s some .out!

😉

Thanks again. This is REALLY gonna be a hit with the crowd tonight!

[Riyad Kalla]

Leif,
Thank you for hanging in there, I’m glad we got this one figured out. Let us know how the presentation goes, maybe even start a new thread under ME > Comments forums if you feel it’s appropriate.

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