The properties file is loaded the first time that the Logger.getLogger(logger_name)
method is called within an application.
Important: The name of
the Logger.properties file is case sensitive. Use a capital
"L" in the file name.
When an application calls the Logger.getLogger
method for the first time, all the available logger properties files are loaded.
Applications can provide
Logger.properties files in:
- the META-INF directory of the Java archive (JAR) file for the application
- directories included in the class path of an application module
- directories included in the application class path
The properties file contains two categories of parameters, logger
control and logger data:
- Logger control information
- Minimum localization level: The minimum LogRecord level for which localization
is attempted
- Group: The logical group that this component belongs to
- Event factory: The Common Base Event template file to use with the event
factory. The naming convention for this template is the fully qualified component
name, with a file extension of .event.xml. For example,
a template that applies to the com.ibm.compXYZ package is called com.ibm.compXYZ.event.xml.
- Logger data information
- Product name
- Organization name
- Component name
- Extensions and additional properties
Syntax of the Logger.properties file
Use the following
syntax to set logger properties:
<logger base name>.<property>=value where:
logger base name is the starting part
of the logger name to which the property applies. All loggers with names starting
with this string have the property applied.
property is
one of the following properties:
- organization
- product
- component
- minimum_localization_level
- group
- eventfactory