Adding logging to spring we application

[Alexandr.Kormiltsyn]

Hi all.
I have a spring-ws application. It is a simpel web service, that is placed between legacy systeem and external clients. It uses a SOAP as an input and generates the SOAP message to be sent to external systems. Now I want to add logging to this project. I have tried to add log4j to my pom.xml in this way:

<dependency>
        <groupId>log4j</groupId>
        <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
        <version>1.2.12</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
        <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
        <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
        <version>1.1.1</version>
      </dependency>

After that maven install gives an error:

[ERROR] 

Mojo: 

    org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.0.2:compile

FAILED for project: 

    com.hti:Labor:war:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT

Reason:

C:\LaboratoryNew\labor\src\main\java\com\hti\service\OrderServiceImpl.java:[11,2] annotations are not supported in -source 1.3
(use -source 5 or higher to enable annotations)
	@Autowired

All the class fields marked with @Autowired are listed in this error message.
Also the stack trace is:

Error stacktrace:
org.apache.maven.ProjectBuildFailureException: Build for project: com.hti:Labor:war:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT failed during execution of mojo: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.0.2:compile
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegmentForProject(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:293)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:191)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:149)
	at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute_aroundBody0(DefaultMaven.java:223)
	at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute_aroundBody1$advice(DefaultMaven.java:304)
	at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:1)
	at org.apache.maven.embedder.MavenEmbedder.execute_aroundBody2(MavenEmbedder.java:904)
	at org.apache.maven.embedder.MavenEmbedder.execute_aroundBody3$advice(MavenEmbedder.java:304)
	at org.apache.maven.embedder.MavenEmbedder.execute(MavenEmbedder.java:1)
	at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:176)
	at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:63)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:289)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:229)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:408)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:351)
	at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:31)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.CompilationFailureException: Compilation failure
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.AbstractCompilerMojo.execute(AbstractCompilerMojo.java:516)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.CompilerMojo.execute(CompilerMojo.java:114)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:579)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:498)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegmentForProject(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:265)
	... 19 more

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILED

I use STS version 2.1.0.SR01. The prtoject is compiled with java version 1.5. If I remove log4j dependecies from pom.xml all is comiled successfully. May be you can advise me, how to correctly add logging ability to my project and is it a good idea to use log4j libraries?

[Alexandr.Kormiltsyn]

Finally I have found a solution. maven dependency should be set like

<dependency>
			<groupId>log4j</groupId>
			<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
			<version>1.2.14</version>
		</dependency>

This works.
But now I have a problem with writing logs to file. I have declared appender in a log4j.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration SYSTEM "log4j.dtd">

<log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/">
 
	<appender name="roll" class="org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender">
		<param name="File" value="logs/application.log" />
		<param name="DatePattern" value=".yyyy-MM-dd" />
		<layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
			<param name="ConversionPattern"
				value="%d{yyyy-MMM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS} [%t] %c %x%n  %-5p %m%n" />
		</layout>
	</appender>
	
	<root>
		<priority value="roll" />
		<appender-ref ref="roll" />
	</root>
	 
</log4j:configuration>

Also the web.xml looks like

<?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" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
	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">

	<context-param>
		<param-name>log4jConfigLocation</param-name>
		<param-value>/WEB-INF/log4j.xml</param-value>
	</context-param>
	
	<listener>
		<listener-class>org.springframework.web.util.Log4jConfigListener</listener-class>
	</listener>

	<context-param>
		<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
		<param-value>WEB-INF/context.xml</param-value>
	</context-param>

	<listener>
		<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
	</listener>
	<listener>
		<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener</listener-class>
	</listener>

	<display-name>Labor</display-name>
	<servlet>
		<display-name>LaborServlet</display-name>
		<servlet-name>LaborServlet</servlet-name>
		<servlet-class>com.hti.web.LaborServlet</servlet-class>
	</servlet>

	<servlet-mapping>
		<servlet-name>LaborServlet</servlet-name>
		<url-pattern>/hti</url-pattern>
	</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

When I change appender type to console it works. How can I manage the goal of writing logs to file and have file names with sysdate date included?

[mada]

This is not a spring issue but a lack of knowledge in log4j in order to know how to write the logs in file instead of the console or am i wrong about your need ?

[Alexandr.Kormiltsyn]

You are actually right. It was the first tme I have configured such type of logging so I have made some mistakes. Now all is ok and configuration file looks like

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration SYSTEM "log4j.dtd">

<log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/">
 
	<appender name="roll" class="org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender">
		<param name="File" value="labor_logs/application.log" />
		<param name="DatePattern" value=".yyyy-MM-dd" />
		<layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
			<param name="ConversionPattern"
				value="%d{yyyy-MMM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS} [%t] %c %x%n  %-5p %m%n" />
		</layout>
	</appender>
	
	<root>
		<priority value="debug" />
		<appender-ref ref="roll" />
	</root>
	 
</log4j:configuration>