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Ria
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Reputation: 2080

Redirect Eclipse Tomcat logs to Console (without ConcoleAppender)

I'm using Eclipse with an external Tomcat ("use tomcat installation, takes control of tomcat").

Our application logs are currently configured with log4j using a FileAppender.

Is it possible to redirect the log messages to the eclipse console without using a ConsoleAppender?

I tried it with a ConsoleAppender and it works fine, but then I have to create an extra log4j.properties file for development and production mode (as we don't want console logs on stage or production systems).

Upvotes: 0

Views: 551

Answers (1)

Hiren
Hiren

Reputation: 280

One way is to write your custom appender using code itself and attache that appender to root logger.

// if it is not production then only execute this mode

  ConsoleAppender console = new ConsoleAppender(); //create appender
  //configure the appender
  String PATTERN = "%d [%p|%c|%C{1}] %m%n";
  console.setLayout(new PatternLayout(PATTERN)); 
  console.setThreshold(Level.FATAL);
  console.activateOptions();
  //add appender to any Logger (here is root)
  Logger.getRootLogger().addAppender(console);

I don't know your application code but you can patch this code somewhere in your code and logically fix this problem. P.S. Again this is just a logical solution. Other way is already known to you that is log4j property file.

Upvotes: 2

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