[Geotools-gt2-users] configuration of java logging using a custom property file

[Jody G. <jod...@gm...>]

Hi Andrea - on IRC you were having some trouble with the java logging stuff (used by a couple of the libraries such as GeoTools).  

Aside: I note that the trouble with JAI spitting out an error messages does not seem to be related to logging. Basically we can use the pure java JAI jars; or expect them to print a message when they fail to find their library on the library path.

Back to logging - apparently there is a -D command line setting that can be used:

java.util.logging.config.file=/path/to/app.properties

We could that add that to our VM Args for uDig - perhaps asking it to pick up a java logging properties file in the uDig application directory?

Note this is a general solution for configuring java logging; for GeoTools you can actually configure it to use different logging engines (log4j, sl4j etc…) using some method on the GeoTools class.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/960099/how-to-set-up-java-logging-using-a-properties-file-java-util-logging  

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Jody Garnett