Log events to a file

[Arthur Buliva]

Am intending to log events occurring in a Java app to a file. Code:

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import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Timer;
import java.util.TimerTask;
import java.util.logging.FileHandler;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
//import javax.swing.Timer;
 
/**
 *
 * @author arthur
 */
public class Daemon
{
 
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
 
        int delay = 0000;   // delay for 0 sec.
        int interval = 1000;  // iterate every sec.
        Timer timer = new Timer();
 
        timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(new TimerTask()
        {
            public void run()
            {
                // Task here ...
                log(Level.INFO, "Hello World");
            }
        }, delay, interval);
 
 
    }
 
 
    private static void log(Level level, String message)
    {
        try
        {
            boolean append = true;
            FileHandler logHandler = new FileHandler("daemon.log", append);
            Logger log = Logger.getLogger(Daemon.class.getName());
            log.addHandler(logHandler);
            log.log(level, message);
        }
        catch (IOException ex)
        {
            log(Level.SEVERE, String.valueOf(ex));
        }
        catch (SecurityException ex)
        {
            log(Level.SEVERE, String.valueOf(ex));
        }
 
    }
}

works fine, but am having multiple files yet the FileHandler has been implicitly asked to append to the log file. What am I doing wrong?

[Francesc Martinez]

I don't know, but you could use Log4J instead (directly or through Commons Logging).