how see jdk logs

Hi
how Can I see the logs that jdk produce during compilation of java files ?
how can I copy the in a file?

Are you using some odd compiler? None of the compilers I have log anything to a file, only to standard output.

use standard output redirection to pipe the output into a file and there's your logfile.

How standard output redirection works depends on your operating system but usually it involves the > character possibly preceded by a stream identifier.

P.S. you can use the -verbose flag to the compiler to make sure there's always output.
As you will know the compiler will normally only give output in case of failure.
[ November 10, 2004: Message edited by: Jeroen Wenting ]

This is probably the standard question of how to redirect stderr on Windows 95/98/ME; the command window doesn't have scrollback, and the error messages scroll off the screen, but command.com/exe don't let you redirect stderr.

Since JDK 1.2, the answer is to use the -Xstdout switch:

javac -Xstdout logfile BuggyProgram.java

All the output from the compiler will go into "logfile" instead of to the screen.

I'm moving this to Java in General (Beginner) for any further discussion.