Getting log4j2 to work with eclipse

Question

I know there is allot of questions been asked on this but i have been trying to get this to work for few day's and i am not any more forward then when i started.

i have tried to use -Dlog4j.configuration=file:/path/to/log4j.properties and -Dlog4j.debug in eclipse vm arguments (under debug & run) and get no output

I have tried to use .properties and .xml but no joy

Tried to put the .xml and .properties files at the root, in the src and in an external folder which i added to my classpath ... still no joy

I think its using another .xml or .properties files in another lib/jar but because i cant get any debug to work i am finding very difficult to track what i am doing wrong here...

any help would be great! below is the code .. only the error message get's printed.

I have download (http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/download.html) and imported into my app the log4j-api-2.0-beta8.jar log4j-core-2.0-beta8

import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;

public class CucmServMonitor 
{
 private static final Logger logger  = LogManager.getLogger(CucmServMonitor.class.getName())
  public static void main(String[] args) 
  {
    logger.error("testing ERROR level");
    logger.trace("exiting application");
    System.out.println(logger.getName());   
  }
}

the xml file i am using just now log4j2.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <configuration status="WARN">
  <appenders>
   <Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
    <PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n"/>
   </Console>
  </appenders>
 <loggers>
  <root level="debug">
   <appender-ref ref="Console"/>
  </root>
 </loggers>
</configuration>

Answer 1

Manage to figure this one out. The hint was here.

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v6r0/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.jdt.doc.user%2Ftasks%2Ftasks-112.htm

I needed to add a "class folder" of where the log4j2.xml was located and then make sure it was at TOP of the list:

Right click on your project and go to properties

Then follow the step shown below. After adding the folder make sure its at the top and then click ok

Answer 2

Or... just create a resources directory like src/test/resources and add the log4j.xml file to that dir and then make that directory a source folder. Then eclipse will automatically copy the file to the the classes dir and there you have it.