Redirect System.out.println

java logging out redirectstandardoutput
EK. picture EK. · Jul 12, 2010 · Viewed 40.6k times · Source

My application has many System.out.println() statements.

I want to catch messages from println and send them to the standard logger (Log4j, JUL etc).

How to do that ?

Answer

paxdiablo picture paxdiablo · Jul 12, 2010

The System class has a setOut and setErr that can be used to change the output stream to, for example, a new PrintStream with a backing File or, in this case, probably another stream which uses your logging subsystem of choice.

Keep in mind you may well get yourself into trouble if you ever configure your logging library to output to standard output or error (of the infinite recursion type, possibly).

If that's the case, you may want to just go and replace your System.out.print-type statements with real logging calls.

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