log4j.xml how to configure.

[jordan ryan]

So I have logging working with my log4j.xml. The issue I have is, because ive moved over from .properties to .xml I need to add a few lines in to everything that has a logger.

import org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator;
		DOMConfigurator.configure("C:\\log4j.xml");

Is there any way I can do the configuration without having to add these lines of code ? I tried moving the xml to the src folder and instead of giving me the warning bellow it logged nothing.

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log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (ProjectName).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
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At the moment it works fine using the code above, but when I go to implement it in to my real application, it will take forever to add these 2 lines of code. I wondered if theres a way to have it configure the xml automatically?

[Paul Clapham]

The documentation says:

The preferred way to specify the default initialization file is through the log4j.configuration system property.

It goes on to say that once you have specified "log4j.configuration=log4j.xml", you should put log4j.xml somewhere in the classpath, just as you formerly did with log4j.properties.

[jordan ryan]

Paul Clapham wrote:The documentation says:

The preferred way to specify the default initialization file is through the log4j.configuration system property.

It goes on to say that once you have specified "log4j.configuration=log4j.xml", you should put log4j.xml somewhere in the classpath, just as you formerly did with log4j.properties.

Hey Paul I understand this and I'm fine with that, my issue is I have to restart the server if I make changes to my log4j.xml. The only way I have found to work around it at the moment is to put this configuration in my code. I was wondering would something like log4jConfigListener, work and how would I implement this ? I'm currently not running log4j2 would this make a difference?