Newbie- help with log4j

[Rosemary Philip <ph...@accuwx.com>]

Hi,

I am having some trouble with log4j classpaths so I cant get a program from
the VSS to work. This is not a web-app , just a bunch of java files.  The
VSS only had the code a previous programmer wrote, not the external packages
he used in his programs.

( Normally the practise I have seen is to keep the complete .jars together
in a package structure with separate packages for external .jars . But here
external jars were not present.)

I downloaded and copied the log4j-1.2.8.jar to C:\Program
Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_04\lib\ext. Yesterday the program using  log4j.Logger
was working fine and compiled correctly. Today it gives me these errors!!!!

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C:\VSS\USMerge>javac com\accuwx\bussys\usmerge\Main.java
com\accuwx\bussys\usmerge\Main.java:9: package org.apache.log4j does not
exist
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
                        ^
com\accuwx\bussys\usmerge\Main.java:10: package org.apache.log4j.xml does
not exist
import org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator;
                            ^
com\accuwx\bussys\usmerge\Main.java:23: cannot resolve symbol
symbol  : class Logger
location: class com.accuwx.bussys.usmerge.Main
        static Logger log = Logger.getLogger(Main.class);
               ^
com\accuwx\bussys\usmerge\Main.java:23: cannot resolve symbol
symbol  : variable Logger
location: class com.accuwx.bussys.usmerge.Main
        static Logger log = Logger.getLogger(Main.class);
                            ^
com\accuwx\bussys\usmerge\Main.java:66: cannot resolve symbol
symbol  : variable DOMConfigurator
location: class com.accuwx.bussys.usmerge.Main
                DOMConfigurator.configure(logConfigFile);

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The import statement in the unhappy program says "import
org.apache.log4j.Logger;" .

I read the INSTALL.TXT in the log4j bundle I downloaded and it says
to -------->

==========
Using log4j from INSTALL.TXT
===========

1) First untar or unzip the distribution file.

2) Assuming you chose to extract the distribution in to the
   PATH_OF_YOUR_CHOICE, untarring the distribution file should create
   a jakarta-log4j-VERSION directory, where VERSION is the log4j
   version number, under PATH_OF_YOUR_CHOICE. We will refer to the
   directory PATH_OF_YOUR_CHOICE/jakarta-log4j-VERSION/ as $LOG4J_HOME/.

3) Assuming you are using log4j version 1.2, add
   $LOG4J_HOME/dist/lib/log4j-1.2.jar to your CLASSPATH,

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So I tried appending that to my classpath. Still no luck.

There was some log4j dependencies which INSTALL.TXT mentioned , one among
them being DOMConfigurator needing the presence of JAXP parser in the
classpath. Is that the problem? But, I dont know how something that worked
last night stopped working today morning, without nothing being changed.

Please let me know if I have left anything out. I think something is pretty
bad with my classpath, but I cant figure out what even after hours on this.

Thanks,

Rosemary Philip
Programmer


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