configuring log4j without a file? is it possible?

[Mi...@retail-logic.com]

Hello people,

In the examples people use they all seem to give the path of a config file
to configure log4j.
Is there anyway we can configure log4j (before it logs to a appender)
without giving it the path of a config file???
maybe get config from Database? another machine etc?
any ideas? solutions? i would be extremely grateful

Cheers.

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Re: configuring log4j without a file? is it possible?

[Vinodh Lakshminarayan <vi...@yahoo.com>]

Hi Michael,
     Yes it is possible. In fact we are reading our properties from a file and configuring the properties at run time. Below is an example. For the sake of simplicity I have placed some hard coded values and have used RollingFileAppender. A console appender can also be configured in the same way
 
  Logger  logInstance = Logger.getLogger("LogWriter");
  PatternLayout layout = new PatternLayout("%d{dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss} %p  %m %n");
  String fullFileName = "D:/logs/WebLog.log";
  int fileSize = 10485760;
  int fileCount = 10;
  RollingFileAppender fileAppender = new RollingFileAppender(layout,fullFileName,true);
  fileAppender.setMaxBackupIndex(fileCount);
  fileAppender.setMaximumFileSize(fileSize);
  logInstance.addAppender(fileAppender);
 
  Hope this helps

Michael.Teji@retail-logic.com wrote:
Hello people,

In the examples people use they all seem to give the path of a config file
to configure log4j.
Is there anyway we can configure log4j (before it logs to a appender)
without giving it the path of a config file???
maybe get config from Database? another machine etc?
any ideas? solutions? i would be extremely grateful

Cheers.

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