log4j:ERROR

[sowjan kumar]

Hi,
I'm using log4j in my application..I could log things properly but the PropertyConfigurator is throwing Exception...

The controllerServlet that this error points out is the PropertyConfigurator configuration....Pls help me out on this

The error that i got was

log4j:ERROR Category option "n" not a decimal integer.
java.lang.NumberFormatException: n
at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:423)
at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:472)
at org.apache.log4j.helpers.PatternParser.extractPrecisionOption(PatternParser.java:109)
at org.apache.log4j.helpers.PatternParser.finalizeConverter(PatternParser.java:234)
at org.apache.log4j.helpers.PatternParser.parse(PatternParser.java:179)
at org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout.setConversionPattern(PatternLayout.java:439)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperty(PropertySetter.java:196)
at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperty(PropertySetter.java:155)
at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties(PropertySetter.java:120)
at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties(PropertySetter.java:87)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseAppender(PropertyConfigurator.java:640)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:603)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.configureRootCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:500)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:406)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.configure(PropertyConfigurator.java:340)
at com.server.utils.ControllerServlet.init(ControllerServlet.java:56)
at com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.StrictServletInstance.doInit(ServletManager.java:802)
at com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.StrictLifecycleServlet._init(StrictLifecycleServlet.java:141)
at com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.PreInitializedServletState.init(StrictLifecycleServlet.java:254)
at com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.StrictLifecycleServlet.init(StrictLifecycleServlet.java:107)
at com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.ServletInstance.init(ServletManager.java:388)
at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:258)
at com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.ServletManager.addServlet(ServletManager.java:84)
at com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.WebAppServletManager.loadServlet(WebAppServletManager.java:193)
at com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.WebAppServletManager.loadAutoLoadServlets(WebAppServletManager.java:325)
at com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.WebApp.loadServletManager(WebApp.java:1218)
at com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.WebApp.init(WebApp.java:145)
at com.ibm.servlet.engine.srt.WebGroup.loadWebApp(WebGroup.java:259)
at com.ibm.servlet.engine.srt.WebGroup.reload(WebGroup.java:1091)
at com.ibm.servlet.engine.srt.ClassChangeWatcher.classChanged(ClassChangeWatcher.java:55)
at com.ibm.ws.classloader.ClassLoaderManager.checkAndNotify(ClassLoaderManager.java:360)
at com.ibm.ws.classloader.ClassLoaderManager.access$100(ClassLoaderManager.java:34)
at com.ibm.ws.classloader.ClassLoaderManager$ReloadTimerTask.run(ClassLoaderManager.java:412)
at java.util.TimerThread.mainLoop(Timer.java:445)
at java.util.TimerThread.run(Timer.java:395)

[Michael Ernest]

The NumberFormatException here is probably the result of a String value that cannot be parsed into an integer. It seems likely this is a bug in your program code, not a service issue.

Moving this to...hm...well I'll figure it out in a sec.