How Can I Pipe the Java Console Output to File Without Java Web Start?

Question

I am wanting to pipe the Java console output (generated by System.out.println and its ilk) to a file. I found an excellent solution here to enable Java tracing,

Answer 1

If you launch it from command line, then you can use redirect stdout and stderr into file as follows:

java -jar application.jar >file.txt  2>&1

where you have to replace application.jar with the jar file of your application.