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Log4J in Tomcat

Custom Appender for Log4j in Tomcat. Open Source Java project under Apache License v2.0

Current Stable Version is 1.0.2

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Usage Example

log4j.rootLogger=INFO, TOMCAT
# Define all the appenders
log4j.appender.TOMCAT=org.javastack.log4j.WebAppDailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.TOMCAT.File=${catalina.base}/logs/tomcat.{context.name:default}.log
log4j.appender.TOMCAT.Append=true
log4j.appender.TOMCAT.Encoding=UTF-8
# Roll-over the log once per day
log4j.appender.TOMCAT.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd
# Text Pattern
log4j.appender.TOMCAT.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.TOMCAT.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} [%t] %p %c [%x] %m%n

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MAVEN

Add the dependency to your pom.xml:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.javastack</groupId>
    <artifactId>log4j-tomcat</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.2</version>
</dependency>

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Inspired in log4j, this code is Java-minimalistic version.