Re: Logging when developing Web apps under NetBeans

From:
Mark Space <markspace@sbc.global.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:59:55 GMT
Message-ID:
<L6xVi.15859$lD6.5001@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net>
Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:

I don't think NetBeans is the problem, but I thought I should include it.

I have some code that uses the Java logging system to print out some
tracing information.

logger.finest("This is some tracing info");

So I want to see what is coming out.

I thought that NetBeans would print it in the output window, but it
doesn't. That would be ideal.

So I want to look at it in a file that is created.

I went to the $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib directory and edited the
logging.properties file, adding:

com.squeakydolphin.level = ALL


I think this only works for classes, not packages.

Set the default level for a whole application with
..level = ALL

Also, you won't get a file output by default, unless you turn that on too:
java.util.logging.FileHandler.level = ALL
java.util.logging.FileHandler.pattern = $h/MyLog.log
java.util.logging.FileHandler.limit = 25000
java.util.logging.FileHandler.count = 4
java.util.logging.FileHandler.formatter = java.util.logging.XMLFormatter

or there abouts.

For a quick test, you might also want to install a console handler:
java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.level = ALL

If you don't want mess with the (global) logging properties, you can set
a specific file on the command line and set your properties on a per
project basis.

java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=myfile.properties

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