No appenders could be found for logger(log4j)?

Question

I have put log4j to my buildpath, but I get the following message when I run my application:

log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (dao.hsqlmanag         


        

Answer 1

Log4J display this warning message when Log4j Java code is searching to create a first log line in your program.

At this moment, Log4j make 2 things

1. it search to find log4j.properties file
2. it search to instantiate the appender define in log4j.properties

If log4J doesn't find log4j.properties file or if appender declared in log4j.rootlogger are not defined elsewhere in log4j.properties file the warning message is displayed.

CAUTION: the content of Properties file must be correct.

The following content is NOT correct

log4j.rootLogger=file

log4j.appender.FILE=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender
log4j.appender.FILE.File=c:/Trace/MsgStackLogging.log
log4j.appender.FILE.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.FILE.layout.ConversionPattern=%m%n
log4j.appender.FILE.ImmediateFlush=true
log4j.appender.FILE.Threshold=debug
log4j.appender.FILE.Append=false

because file appender is declared in LOWER-CASE in log4j.rootlogger statement and defined in log4j.appender statement using UPPER-CASE !

A correct file would be

log4j.rootLogger=FILE

log4j.appender.FILE=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender
log4j.appender.FILE.File=c:/Trace/MsgStackLogging.log
log4j.appender.FILE.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.FILE.layout.ConversionPattern=%m%n
log4j.appender.FILE.ImmediateFlush=true
log4j.appender.FILE.Threshold=debug
log4j.appender.FILE.Append=false

If MAVEN is used, you must put log4j.properties files in src/main/resources AND start a MAVEN build.

Log4j.properties file is then copied in target/classes folder.

Log4J use the log4j.properties file that it found in target/classes !