首先先到http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/download.html下载log4j 2.x
如图1:web的jar包
如图1所示,是在WEB项目中使用log4j2需要的jar包。在WEB项目中我们需要把它拷贝到WEB-INF目录的lib目录下。
在WEB项目中使用log4j2需要在web.xml文件中配置如下的监听器和过滤器。
<listener>
<listener-class>org.apache.logging.log4j.web.Log4jServletContextListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<filter>
<filter-name>log4jServletFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.apache.logging.log4j.web.Log4jServletFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>log4jServletFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>INCLUDE</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>ERROR</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>
下面通过一个例子来说明一下:
用eclipse新建一个Dynamic Web Project工程。然后建一个log4j2.jsp的文件内容如下:
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>log4j2 web test</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="LogServlet" method="post">
<input type="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
建一个Servlet类LogServlet类容如下(为了更加清晰知道我们使用了哪一个日志类,我把import也贴出来了):
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
/**
* Servlet implementation class LogServlet
*/
public class LogServlet extends HttpServlet {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
/**
* @see HttpServlet#HttpServlet()
*/
public LogServlet() {
super();
// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
}
/**
* @see HttpServlet#doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
*/
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
}
/**
* @see HttpServlet#doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
*/
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
Logger log = LogManager.getLogger();
log.info("log4j test");
log.debug("debug");
log.error("error");
}
}
把log4j2的监听器和过滤器加入web.xml中:web.xml的类容如下:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
<display-name>invoicing</display-name>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<!-- 配置log4j2 -->
<listener>
<listener-class>org.apache.logging.log4j.web.Log4jServletContextListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<filter>
<filter-name>log4jServletFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.apache.logging.log4j.web.Log4jServletFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>log4jServletFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>INCLUDE</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>ERROR</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>
<filter>
<filter-name>encoding</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.wl.filter.EncodingFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>encoding</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<servlet>
<description></description>
<display-name>LogServlet</display-name>
<servlet-name>LogServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.wl.app.login.LogServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>LogServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/LogServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
然后我们可以在tomcat服务器上运行程序,可以发现在项目的根目录下有logs文件夹下有一个app.log的日志文件。可以配置log4j2.xml更改。log4j2.xml配置文件要放在classpath下,一般放在src目录下。关于log4j2的配置可以参考:http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/customconfig.html
下面是log4j2.xml的配置,如果你使用的是eclipse你可能发现并没有在项目根目录中找到日志文件,其实是在项目所在的工作空间的\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\wtpwebapps目录下,例如我的项目工作空间是E:\web1,那么实际的运行时的目录在下面的目录中,你可以在相应的目录中找到日志文件。
E:\web1\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\wtpwebapps
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration status="error">
<appenders>
<Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
<ThresholdFilter level="trace" onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY"/>
<PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} %-5level %class{36} %L %M - %msg%xEx%n"/>
</Console>
<File name="log" fileName="target/test.log" append="false">
<PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} %-5level %class{36} %L %M - %msg%xEx%n"/>
</File>
<RollingFile name="RollingFile" fileName="${web:rootDir}/logs/app.log"
filePattern="logs/$${date:yyyy-MM}/app-%d{MM-dd-yyyy}-%i.log.gz">
<PatternLayout pattern="%d{yyyy.MM.dd 'at' HH:mm:ss z} %-5level %class{36} %L %M - %msg%xEx%n"/>
<SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="20 MB" />
</RollingFile>
</appenders>
<loggers>
<root level="info">
<appender-ref ref="RollingFile"/>
<appender-ref ref="Console"/>
<!-- <appender-ref ref="log" /> -->
</root>
</loggers>
</configuration>
在上面的配置中注意其中${web:rootDir}代表项目的根目录,这样配置当我们项目部署到其他地方的时候就不用去更改目录了。