: OK, so java.util.logging has no way of sending error messages to a separate : log without writing your own Handler/Filter code. : If we just skip over the absurdity of that, and the rage it makes me feel,
FWIW: that's a slight mischaracterization of java.util.logging (JUL): the API & framework make things like this very easy -- however -- in an attempt to encourage the various existing logging communities to implement the JUL APIs by writing a LogManager, the default LogManager provided by the JRE has an extremely simplistic properties file based configuration which (i freely admit even as an advocate of JUL) sucks ass. a few servlet containers provide their own LogManager which has a more robust configuration syntax (Resin being my favorite example of a container that does a great job of this) -Hoss
