Where should I put the log4j.properties file?

Question

I wrote a web service project using netbeans 6.7.1 with glassfish v2.1, put log4j.properties to the root dir of project and use:

static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(MyClass.class);

in Constructor:

PropertyConfigurator.configure("log4j.properties");

and in functions:

logger.info("...");
logger.error("...");
// ...

but, it is error info(actually, I have tried to put it almost every dir that I could realize):

log4j:ERROR Could not read configuration file [log4j.properties].
java.io.FileNotFoundException: log4j.properties (The system cannot find the file specified)
        at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
        at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:106)
        at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:66)
        at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:297)
        at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.configure(PropertyConfigurator.java:315)
        at com.corp.ors.demo.OrsDemo.main(OrisDemo.java:228)
log4j:ERROR Ignoring configuration file [log4j.properties].
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (com.corp.ors.demo.OrsDemo).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.

the example project could be get from http://www.91files.com/?N3F0QGQPWMDGPBRN0QA8

Answer 1

I know it's a bit late to answer this question, and maybe you already found the solution, but I'm posting the solution I found (after I googled a lot) so it may help a little:

1. Put log4j.properties under WEB-INF\classes of the project as mentioned previously in this thread.
2. Put log4j-xx.jar under WEB-INF\lib
3. Test if log4j was loaded: add -Dlog4j.debug @ the end of your java options of tomcat

Hope this will help.

rgds