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How do I configure Spring and SLF4J so that I can get logging?

I've got a maven & spring app that I want logging in. I'm keen to use SLF4J.

I want to put all my config files into a directory {classpath}/config including log4j.xml and then init using a spring bean.

e.g.

<bean id="log4jInitialization" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.MethodInvokingFactoryBean">
    <property name="targetClass" value="org.springframework.util.Log4jConfigurer"/>
    <property name="targetMethod" value="initLogging"/>
    <property name="arguments">
        <list>
            <value>classpath:config/log4j.xml</value>
        </list>
    </property>
</bean>

However I get this warning and no logging.

log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext). log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info.

I've googled around and can't find a simple example on setting this up. Any ideas?

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Programming Guy Avatar asked Aug 02 '10 11:08

Programming Guy


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4 Answers

In addition to Jatin's answer:

Spring uses Jakarta Commons Logging as a logging API. In order to log to slf4j, you need to make sure commons-logging is not on the classpath. jcl-over-slf4j is a replacement jar for commons-logging.

If you're using maven, you can detect where commons-logging comes from using mvn dependency:tree and exclude it from all dependencies that require it using dependency exclusions. You might need to run mvn dependency:tree several times though, because it only shows the first occurence of a transitive dependency.

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
  <version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
  <exclusions>
    <exclusion>
      <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
      <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
    </exclusion>
  </exclusions>
</dependency>
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Stijn Van Bael Avatar answered Oct 16 '22 09:10

Stijn Van Bael


You'll find an example at https://github.com/mbogoevici/spring-samples/tree/master/mvc-basic/trunk. You need to include some dependencies in your POM file to enable logging.

<!-- Logging -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
        <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
        <version>${org.slf4j.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
        <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
        <version>${org.slf4j.version}</version>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
        <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
        <version>${org.slf4j.version}</version>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>log4j</groupId>
        <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
        <version>1.2.16</version>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>
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Jatin Avatar answered Oct 16 '22 10:10

Jatin


Just for the sake of completeness, a logback-classic variant:

<dependency>
    <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
    <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
    <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
    <version>1.6.6</version>
    <scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>

Do not forget however to disable commons-logging dependency which sprouts from Spring dependency like in the accepted (Stijn's) answer.

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Boris Treukhov Avatar answered Oct 16 '22 10:10

Boris Treukhov


Use blow configuration for implementation of the JCL API on the classpath:

<dependencies>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
          <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
          <version>3.0.0.RELEASE</version>
          <scope>runtime</scope>
          <exclusions>
             <exclusion>
                <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
                <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
             </exclusion>
          </exclusions>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
          <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
          <version>1.5.8</version>
          <scope>runtime</scope>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
          <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
          <version>1.5.8</version>
          <scope>runtime</scope>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
          <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
          <version>1.5.8</version>
          <scope>runtime</scope>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>log4j</groupId>
          <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
          <version>1.2.14</version>
          <scope>runtime</scope>
       </dependency>
    </dependencies> 

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Chandra Sekhar Avatar answered Oct 16 '22 11:10

Chandra Sekhar