Conditional logging with log4j

Question

The web application on which I am working occasionally develops data integrity issues for some of the users. I\'d like to turn on trace level logging, but since we are deali

Answer 1

I make a workaround as follow

Config your log target in log4j.xml like the following:

create a customer logger method that append your target tag [trackfile]

private void logfile(String msg) {
    logger.info("trackfile: " + msg);
}

log your information using the above method:

logfile("your log message")