Please initialize the log4j system properly. While running web service

Those messages are something tricky, enough so that people created this to make it clearer: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25747

What’s tricky about them is that the warnings are written if Log4j can’t find its log4j.properties (or log4j.xml) file, but also if the file is fine and dandy but its content is not complete from a configuration point of view.

The following paragraph is taken from here: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/logging/log4j/tags/v1_2_9/docs/TROUBLESHOOT.html

Logging output is written to a target by using an appender. If no appenders are attached to a category nor to any of its ancestors, you will get the following message when trying to log:

log4j: No appenders could be found for category (some.category.name).
log4j: Please initialize the log4j system properly.

Log4j does not have a default logging target. It is the user’s responsibility to ensure that all categories can inherit an appender. This can be easily achieved by attaching an appender to the root category.

You can find info on how to configure the root logger (log4j.rootLogger) in the log4j documentation, basically adding something as simple as this at the beginning of the file:

log4j.rootLogger=debug, stdout
log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%-4r [%t] %-5p %c %x - %m%n

This should clear those WARN messages you get on startup (make sure you don’t already have an appender named stdout; also be carefull of what level you give the root logger, debug will be very verbose and every library in your app will start writing stuff to the console).

As about the log4j.properties/log4j.xml, I suggest you place this file in /WEB-INF/classes as it is important to have it exposed for different tweaks (activating/deactivating logs, changing log levels etc). You can have it inside a JAR in the classpath also (as you specified in your comment), but it will be enclosed in the archive (hopefully in the right place inside the archive) and won’t be as easy to handle as if it were in /WEB-INF/classes.

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