You are right, I don't have the directory in the ANT's class path,
but nevertheless, ANT can find those classes under it...I have two
things that need to be clarified -
1. You said you need to specify log4j.configuration..But I didn't
have to specify it, and it works fine...how come?
2. Is there a way to specify a default configuration programmatically
(ie. in the code, specify the Appender, Layout, etc...) and make it
picked-up if the log4j.properties is not found? Since i don't even
explicitly call PropertyConfigurator.configure in my code, how can
this kind of fall-back logic be implemented?
Thanks a lot.
wleana
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Erik Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> wleana wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have a LogTest program that can successfully write to syslog
using
> > Log4J *when I invoke it standalone*, ie. java ***.**.LogTest. But
> > when I do it from ANT/JUnit, there is no log message written.
> >
> > I tried around, and found that if I add the call
> > PropertyConfigurator.configure("log4j.properties") in my code,
then
> > it will write the log message when I run ANT/JUnit.
> >
> > But why do I need to do it just for ANT/Junit env, while it is
not
> > needed when I run it standalone? I don't want to hard code that
way
> > in the code.
> >
> > For the standalone way, I didn't specify log4j.configuration or
> > invoke PropertyConfigurator.configure(..), all I do is to put
> > log4j.properties file in my classpath and it works.
>
> I do not know for certain but is it possible that you did not have
the
> file in your Ant script's <classpath> ?
>
> I have been using Ant and Log4J with JUnit successfully for the
past
> couple of days by doing this:
>
> 1. I have a file named "testlogconfig.properties" located at some
> specified point in my source tree.
>
> 2. I have Ant set a system property with <sysproperty> named
> "log4j.configuration" whose value is the path to my properties
file,
> prepended by the characters: "file://" (so it looks like this:
> <property name="test.log4j.config"
> location="path/to/properties/file"/>
> <junit
> ...(other attributes go here)...
> >
> <sysproperty name="log4j.configuration"
> value="file://${test.log4j.config}"/>
> </junit>
> ).
>
> 3. Log4J automatically checks for this system property and
evaluates the
> value to a URL and searches for the file at that URL. In my case,
on
> Win2k, I had to use the "file://" prefix but I have heard that you
don't
> necessarily have to use that on Unix systems.
>
> Maybe that will help?
>
>
> Erik
>
>
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