Rolling log Files & removing old log files

Question

I am working on a Java SOAP based webservice application where I am writing stdout to a text file as log for our reference. That file is growing enormously, so I need to check f

Answer 1

I see a lot of answers telling you to use Log4J, but you can use Java's own logger to do this by simply creating a FileHandler:

Handler handler =
    new FileHandler("%h/MyService-%g.log", 10 * 1024 * 1024, 10);
handler.setLevel(Level.ALL);
Logger.getLogger("").addHandler(handler);