Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hi,

I'm including the following log4j.xml the WEB-INF/classes directory in my WAR file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration SYSTEM "log4j.dtd">

<log4j:configuration debug="false" xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/">
  <appender name="RollingFileAppender" class="org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender">
    <param name="File" value="/logs/jexus.log" />
    <param name="Append" value="true" />
    <param name="MaxFileSize" value="500kb" />
    <param name="MaxBackupIndex" value="2" />
    <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
      <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%-5p [%C{1}] %d{HH:mm:ss,SSSS} - %m%n"/>
    </layout>
  </appender>

  <appender name="ConsoleAppender" class="org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender">
    <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
      <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%-5p [%C{1}] %d{HH:mm:ss,SSSS} - %m%n"/>
    </layout>
  </appender>

  <category name="net.sf.jexus">
    <priority value="DEBUG" />
    <appender-ref ref="RollingFileAppender" />
  </category>

  <root>
    <priority value="ERROR" />
    <appender-ref ref="ConsoleAppender" />
  </root>

</log4j:configuration>

However, using the above configuration I get my web application specific DEBUG messages appearing in the Tomcat stdout.log log file when I only want them to appear in my jexus.log log file. When I comment out the <root> category, I get the correct behaviour for my app-specific log messages but I don't get any messages appearing in my Tomcat log file and I get the following error message:

log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.commons.beanutils.ConvertUtils).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.

I also tried moving the log4j.xml to my WEB-INF directory, but this just causes the same issue. Can anyone advise how I should be configuring my log files?